The 14th legislature since Independence opens today.Mass is being said at St John's Co-Cathedral, following which all 79 Members of Parliament will take their oath of office.The House will first appoints its Speaker, with Anglu Farrrgia set to be con...

Archbishop Charles Jude Scicluna said Saturday that Malta and its people need to work towards overcoming the tribal mentality of “you and us, them and us.”Scicluna was delivering his homily during a ceremonial Mass of the Holy Spirit at S...

ADPD – The Green Party Chairperson said the new Parliament is a reflection of a legally rigged system that is meant to favour the PLPN. The electoral mechanisms that ADPD has insisted upon throughout the election campaign as being discriminator...

Efforts to evacuate more civilians from the tunnels beneath a sprawling steel mill were to go on Saturday as Ukrainian fighters make their last stand in Mariupol to prevent Moscow's complete takeover of the strategically important port city.Dozens of...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday authorized the shipment of another $150 million in military assistance for Ukraine for artillery rounds and radar systems in its fight against Russia’s invading forces.Biden said the latest spend...

Malta will from Monday scrap its red and dark red travel lists, Health Minister Chris Fearne announced on Friday.Speaking in a comment to state broadcaster TVM, Fearne said that as from Monday travellers coming from any country will no longer require...

Transport Malta announced that the financial initiative for the purchase of new or used Plug-in Hybrid vehicles has been fully taken up. For this reason, the scheme will be available only for cars ordered by 31 May 2022, the agency said in a sta...

Gozo Minister Clint Camilleri has revealed the government’s plans for an extension to the Xewkija helipad with a 450m runway for small aircraft. Speaking in a press conference, Camilleri said that a public consultation regarding the plans for t...

Former economy minister Chris Cardona appeared in court on Friday morning in a case filed by the heirs of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The family is requesting damages suffered as a result of Cardona’s now infamous...

Investigators found traces of murder victim Mario Farrugia’s blood smeared on the wall of Eliot Paul Busuttil’s bedroom, a court has been told as the compilation of evidence against Busuttil began before magistrate Astrid May Grima on Thu...

A lot has been said of many Maltese being experts at fattening their pockets.  But the fact is that, besides that, we continue to be experts when it comes to fattening up our own figure.That’s shown by the World Health Organisation, with t...

Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Friday that Opposition Leader Bernard Grech has refused to reach compromises over the appointment of important roles in the institution, such as the Parliament Speaker, the Ombudsman, and the Standards Commissioner...

70% of citizens are satisfied with the way public service in Malta is given, outgoing chief Mario Cutajar said on Friday.Speaking at a conference for Public Service Week 2022, titled “Investing in Quality,” Cutajar said that the public se...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to address the Maltese Parliament on Tuesday afternoon.The announcement was made by Speaker Anglu Farrugia on TVM on Friday morning.Zelenskyy is expected to address MPs via video conference. Farrugi...

122 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Friday, while no new deaths were reported.285 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 2,995.1,569 swab tests were car...

A man was grievously injured on Friday morning in a fight in Siggiewi, the police said.The incident involved a man aged 59 of Tarxien, and two others aged 34 and 43, both of Siggiewi.The man from Tarxien suffered grievous injuries in the fight, and w...

The Church in Malta collected €358,366 for the benefit of the people in Ukraine, a Caritas Malta statement read."This is one of the initiatives the Church in Malta took to help the Ukrainian people. This fund raising campaign was led by Caritas ...

Principal Permanent Secretary for Public Service Mario Cutajar announced FRiday that he will be retiring.Speaking at a conference for Public Service Week 2022 in Ta’ Qali, Cutajar announced his retirement after 46 years as a public officer. Cut...

Lautaro Martínez may have saved Inter Milan’s title challenge.Martinez scored twice to help the defending champion recover from two goals down to beat Empoli 4-2 and move to the top of Serie A on Friday — for 48 hours at least.Inte...

Sta Lucia were relegated to the Challenge League after losing to Valletta by the odd goal in three. It was a match that the Saints had to win in order to keep up their hopes alive. Instead they left the pitch empty handed and Balzan are now safe foll...

A pillion rider was critically injured after the bike she was riding on was involved in a collision in Mosta on Thursday evening.The accident took place in Independence Avenue at 11.30pm.It involved a BMW 120D driven by a 28-year-old woman of Gzira, ...

Life expectancy at birth in Malta stood at 82.9 years in 2021, Eurostat figures show.The statistical office of the European Union said that this figure shows a return to the same expectancy that Malta had in 2019, after it had dipped to 82.3 years in...

In January 2022, 110 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in Malta, Eurostat data shows.In the EU in total, there were 52,865 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applying for international pro...

Pensioners received two increases to make up for a rise in the cost of living, Minister for Social Justice and Solidarity, the Family and Children's Rights Michael Falzon said Friday.He was giving a reaction to a cost-of-living survey carried out by ...

The Labour Party has always believed in the importance of having a social security department, Social Policy Minister Michael Falzon said on Friday, on the occasion of the department’s 66th anniversary.He added that this department has always m...

Ukrainian fighters in the tunnels underneath Mariupol’s pulverized steel plant held out against Russian troops Thursday in an increasingly desperate and perhaps doomed effort to deny Moscow what would be its biggest success of the war yet: the ...

It seems that the Nationalist Party’s wounds will never be allowed to heal. Not only has the party suffered another trashing at the polls, but now, one of its former top MPs has declared open war against its leader, Bernard Grech. And it seems,...

Former PN MP David Thake has withdrawn a libel suit he had filed against the Labour media station over a story on unpaid VAT.One News reported that Thake has reached an agreement with the tax department to repay the €270,000 bill owed by his com...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon says the majority of Russian forces that had been around the port city of Mariupol have left and headed north, leaving roughly the equivalent of two battalion tactical groups there, or about 2,000 troops.Pentagon spoke...

Minister for Transport Aaron Farrugia defended the decision of issuing over €430,000 in direct orders related to the Malta Metro, saying that the government simply makes decisions according to the situation.The Malta Independent reported on Tues...

Five Covid-19 patients have died while positive for the virus in the last 24 hours, while health authorities reported 167 new cases of the virus on Thursday.287 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases c...

The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 15 million people were killed either by coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems during the first two years of the pandemic, more than double the current official death toll of ove...

Former Nationalist Party secretary general Louis Galea denied allegations that he had advised current leader Bernard Grech to reject the nomination of Anglu Farrugia as Speaker and to leave out from the shadow Cabinet MPs who formed part of the Gonzi...

Minister for Transport Aaron Farrugia announced a record 500% growth in the aviation register over the past decade, with 665 aircraft currently registered in Malta. Speaking at a press conference in Lija, Farrugia said that despite the impact of the ...

A biker has died after losing control of the motorbike he was riding on the Coast Road on Thursday morning, the police said.The biker, a 35-year-old French man who resides in Sliema, lost control of the Honda CB 600 he was riding and crashed into a c...

The Bank of Valletta group has registered a €22.0 million for the first quarter of 2022, up by €12.7 million from the same period in 2021. This improvement reflects the ongoing but as yet incomplete recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, furt...

Floriana and Gudja cross swords in the last match of their campaign. A match which both sides had nothing to play for. Floriana certain of second placing and European football come next season and Gudja holding on to sixth place in the Top Six and th...

Eintracht Frankfurt reached its first European final in 42 years by knocking West Ham out of the Europa League on Thursday, setting up a title game against Scottish club Rangers.Frankfurt beat 10-man West Ham 1-0 at home to complete a 3-1 aggregate v...

Pope Francis has arrived at an audience in a wheelchair as his knee pain continues to limit his mobility.Francis was wheeled into the meeting Thursday with nuns and religious superiors from around the world who are meeting in Rome. It was the first t...

MADRID — Spanish authorities have arrested a Ukrainian politician-blogger accused of treason in his home country.An official with the Spanish national police confirmed that Anatoly Shariy had been detained Wednesday in Tarragona under an intern...

As part of Public Service Week 2022, themed 'Investing in Quality', five new projects were launched to continue to change and improve the way the Public Service works, the government said.The projects are the Digital Transformation Hub, the Central R...

A man was arrested by police a mere 90 minutes after he allegedly robbed a shop in Floriana on Wednesday.Police said in a statement on Thursday that they were alerted to a theft from a shop in Triq San Tumas in Floriana at around 1:30pm on Wednesday....

Following the Annual General Meeting of the Malta Chamber of SMEs, held last week, today the first council meeting took place, during which Paul Abela was elected and confirmed as president.Abela thanked the SME Chamber members and the executive coun...

The National Book Council is pleased to publish the list of titles that were submitted to participate in the adjudication of the National Book Prize and Terramaxka Prize 2022, for books published in 2021. The National Book Prize is the highest litera...

Russia moved to obstruct the flow of Western weapons to Ukraine by bombarding rail stations and other supply-line targets across the country while the European Union weighed whether to further punish Moscow with a ban on oil imports.Heavy fighti...

VisitMalta will become the official destination partner of EOLO-Kometa Cycling Team. This agreement will see VisitMalta branding present on all race kits and team vehicles during one of the most high profile sporting events of the cycling world, the ...

A husband and a wife died within two days of each other after being married for 62 years, Italian media report.Rosalia Fascella, 94, died in her own bed on 28 April, and her husband Giuseppe, 99, who was already fragile from a health point of view, r...

The debacle surrounding former PN MP Jason Azzopardi has been declared as “closed” by Bernard Grech; but the PN leader has said that he would not ignore what the former MP has to say in the future, despite his resignation from the party.G...

The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses (MUMN) insisted that the charges against a Mount Carmel Hospital (MCH) nurse over unprofessional conduct in 2017 and MCH manager Joseph Pace, must be revised and dropped immediately. “The union will n...

Fitch Ratings has downgraded Bank of Valletta p.l.c.'s (BOV) Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'BBB-' from 'BBB' and Viability Rating (VR) to 'bbb-' from 'bbb', and removed them from Under Criteria Observation (UCO). The Outlook on the Long-Te...

A Europol digital forensics expert has handed a court his report on over 20 devices, together with the devices themselves, all of which had been seized as part of the police investigation into Jamie Vella and George Degiorgio as well as the ta&r...

Audio recordings of a domestic incident on Easter Sunday in which a man threatened to shoot his partner’s three children and himself have been played in court.Magistrate Caroline Farrugia Frendo continued to hear evidence as the compilation of ...

One Covid-19 patient has died while positive for the virus in the last 24 hours, while health authorities reported 158 new cases of the virus on Wednesday. 202 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases cu...

Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat today defended Malta’s hedging agreement, saying that Malta saved around €125 million.Muscat said that if one compares what the country paid in the five years of the hedging agreement, with what wou...

Bank of Valletta has announced that it has settled a massive €363 million claim by bondholders of a defunct Italian shipping company for €182.5 million without admitting any liability on its part.The news comes while the bank was appealing ...

The “Si se puede! (Yes we can!)” chants gradually faded at the Santiago Bernabéu as the minutes passed and Real Madrid looked beaten.As the end of regulation approached, many in the stands — and on the field — were clos...

Yorgen Fenech’s considerable assets in several countries, his access to cryptocurrencies and his influential contacts abroad were just a few of the reasons given by a judge in her decision, earlier this week, to dismiss a claimed breach of huma...

A 32-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a drug trafficking and importation operation.The man, who lives in Marsaxlokk, was allegedly importing drugs from Sicily.He was arrested on Monday evening after the police followed the movements ...

The World Health Organization says the rates of people who are obese and overweight in Europe have hit “epidemic proportions," with nearly 60% of adults and a third of children in one of those categories.In a report issued Tuesday, th...

The Nationalist Party said it will not back the re-appointment of Anglu Farrugia as Speaker of the House of Representatives.In a statement issued late Tuesday, the PN parliamentary group invited the Prime Minister to hold a discussion with the opposi...

The high cost of living that is affecting so many families needs to be addressed, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said.Speaking during a meeting with the Chamber of Commerce, Grech said that the country needs to strengthen its economic sectors and cr...

A woman was grievously injured in Ta’ Xbiex early Wednesday morning in a stabbing incident.The police said the attack took place in Testaferrata Street at 12.30am.The woman, aged 47, from Birkirkara, was involved in an argument with another wom...

The European Union's top official on Wednesday called on the 27-nation bloc to ban oil imports from Russia in a sixth package of sanctions targeting Moscow for its war in Ukraine.European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also proposed t...

The State opening of Parliament will take place on Saturday, a full six weeks after the election was held on 26 March.That day, the Labour Party obtained a record victory, the third in a row, and will be governing the country for the next five years....

On the 21April 2022, the Industrial Tribunal decided that, based on the elements of the case at hand, the employee CS (the “plaintiff”) was not forced to resign from his employment with the company RS&S Ltd (the “Company”)...

Ukrainian officials and the United Nations held out hope for more evacuations from the bombed-out steel mill in Mariupol as scores of civilians reached relative safety after enduring weeks of shelling that targeted city's last pocket of resistance.Wh...

MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees are camping out in Mexico City and waiting for the U.S. government to allow them into the country.About 500 evacuees were waiting Tuesday in large tents under a searing sun on a dusty field on the ea...

Malta has risen three places in the World Press Freedom Index, but remains one of the European countries with the worst record, according to an annual assessment carried out by Reporters Without Borders.The NGO’s report was published on Tuesday...

A prison inmate and his girlfriend have been awarded compensation after a court declared that their right to their private and family life was breached by the prison authorities' refusal to allow the man leave in order for them to get marri...

Families are spending over €100 more every month on food when compared to 2020, a newly published study by Caritas Malta shows.NGO Caritas Malta presented the MiniMEBDL research study for the year of 2022, referring to the Minimum Essential Budg...

George Hyzler has been formally approved as a member nominee of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) by the European Parliament on Tuesday, with 551 out of 629 members voting in favour. This is the second stage that Hyzler needed to undergo. The...

An events company which is one of the main providers for equipment relating to the Labour Party’s political events netted over €430,000 in direct orders related to the Malta Metro, newly published data reveals.Data published in the Governm...

Two more Covid-19 patients have died while positive for the virus, taking Malta’s pandemic death toll up to 702.Health authorities reported 175 new cases of the virus on Tuesday.196 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that t...

On World Press Freedom Day, the IĠM salutes journalists for the work they do to uncover the truth, keep power to account and give a voice to the voiceless."Many times, this work is done with great personal sacrifices in a climate that is no...

A judge has dismissed a case filed two years ago by Vince Muscat, in which he had claimed conspiracy behind the decisions to refuse several of his pardon requests.Muscat, the only man so far that was jailed for the murder of Daphn...

Liverpool players stared at each other in disbelief. By the bench, manager Jürgen Klopp watched in awe.Just like that, Liverpool had squandered its two-goal lead from the first leg of the Champions League semifinals against Villarreal, and its s...

The Nationalist Party administrative council on Monday night expressed its unanimous confidence in leader Bernard Grech.The vote was taken after Jason Azzopardi failed to produce evidence before the party’s Commission for Ethics, Discipline and...

The Beverage Container Refund Scheme (BCRS), together with The Malta Chamber of Commerce and Circular Economy Malta, are expected to launch a waste management project across Malta and Gozo promoting the recycling of plastic steel and aluminum beverag...

The Occupational Health and Safety Authority (OHSA) said hazardous work situations should be immediately reported for it to take action.The OHSA issued a statement after being alerted to the case of the dangerous scaffolding that got detached from th...

A man suffered grievous injuries after he fell off a truck which he was loading with material on Tuesday afternoon.Police said in a statement that they were informed of the accident at around 12:30pm on Tuesday in the Corradino Industrial Estate in P...

LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told Ukraine’s parliament that their country has achieved the “greatest feat of arms of the 21st century” by repelling Russia’s attempt to capture Kyiv.Johnson addressed ...

Jason Azzopardi has resigned from member of the Nationalist Party, which means that he will not be investigated by the party structures over allegations he has made against PN Leader Bernard Grech.Azzopardi submitted his resignation to PN secretary g...

The Civil Protection Department succeeded on Monday in rescuing two dogs which had gotten lost in the cliff area around Mtaħleb.Sharing the news on their Facebook Page, the department said that Civil Protection personnel were alerted that two do...

The victim of a knife attack has told a court how, a week before the incident, he had been involved in a prolonged argument with the man accused of attacking him, over a rebuke for littering.Magistrate Ian Farrugia continued to hear evidence in the c...

On 3 May, the World Press Freedom Day, the European Parliament officially launched the call for submissions for entries to the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism.The Prize rewards on a yearly basis outstanding journalism that promotes or def...

Pope Francis has told an Italian newspaper that he offered to travel to Moscow to meet the Russian president about three weeks into the invasion, but that he has not received a response.Francis was quoted Tuesday by Corriere della Sera as saying his ...

The Nationalist Party plans to press for a number of changes to Parliament this legislature, and their ideas are generally quite good.One suggestion is for the introduction of Prime Minister’s Question time, a concept that is used in the UK, wh...

A senior U.S. official warned that Russia plans to annex large portions of eastern Ukraine later this month, and the Mariupol steel mill that has become the city’s last stronghold of resistance came under renewed assault a day after the first e...

A scaffolding affixed to the façade of the Barracuda restaurant in St Julian’s came undone on Monday afternoon, threatening to topple over and crash into the street below.The area was cordoned off by police, leading to massive traffic ja...

The court has asked the Commissioner of Police to investigate allegations made that Neville Gafa attempted to bribe witnesses in a libel case regarding the medical visas scandal.The request was made in judgements in which the court, presided by Magis...

Two more Covid-19 patients have died while positive for the virus, taking Malta’s pandemic death toll up to 700.Health authorities reported 114 new cases of the virus on Monday.185 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that th...

A request by lawyers for MP Rosianne Cutajar, asking that the burden of proof be inverted in a defamation case she had filed against a critic, has been upheld by a court.Cutajar was once again present in Magistrate Rachel Montebello’s courtroom...

Learning to identify and defuse explosives is something Anastasiia Minchukova never thought she would have to do as an English teacher in Ukraine. Yet there she was wearing a face shield, armed with a landmine detector and venturing into a field dott...

The Malta Union of Midwives & Nurses has lambasted the Police Force and expressed shock that “for the second time nurses are being taken to court on issues beyond their responsibilities.”The union said that the cases centre around pat...

Almost all of Malta’s Covid-19 restrictions will be removed as from today, while the second Covid-19 booster shot will also be offered to those over the age of 65 from today.As from today, only those who are positive for Covid-19 will need to i...

Malta International Airport (MIA) welcomed today's removal of the requirement to wear face masks indoors and the requirement to fill in a passenger locator form (PLF), calling them positive steps in the right direction."Another important change for t...

Since 2013, the Public Service has implemented a total of 1,250 measures aimed at reducing bureaucracy, Principal Permanent Secretary Mario Cutajar said on Monday at the launch of this year’s Public Service Week.Over the past year alone, 186 si...

Total cruise passenger traffic during the first quarter of 2022 amounted to 25,200. There were 23 cruise liner calls during the first quarter, an increase of 14 when compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year, the National Statistics ...

ATHENS, Greece — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that half a million Ukrainians have been “illegally taken to Russia, or other places, against their will.”Speaking to Greek state TV ERT, Zelenskyy said the remaining civ...

After nearly two months of siege, civilians holed up at a steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol began to be evacuated over the weekend, and people sheltering elsewhere in the city were to be allowed out on Monday, local officials said.Video p...