Ukrainian firefighters on Friday extinguished a blaze at Europe’s biggest nuclear plant that was ignited by Russian shelling, as Russian forces seized control of the site and pressed their campaign to cripple the country despite globa...

MOSCOW — The Russian parliament has passed a bill introducing sentences of up to 15 years in prison for intentionally spreading “fake” information about military action.Russian state news agencies reported Friday the passing of the ...

The Covid-19 crisis has proved large challenges in various sectors of the world, significantly impacting greatly the economy, education, and health. Mental health, whilst seeing improvements over the years, is still an overlooked issue which the pand...

When an election is approaching or the Pope is set to visit we tend to try to spruce up. We see more cleaners, roads are patched up or tarmacked, and there is a general sense that the country is getting a facelift. It’s like when we’re ha...

The London Stock Exchange has suspended trading in a number of companies which have strong links to Russia, including a company owned by a Russian millionaire who acquired a Maltese passport through Individual Investor Programme (IIP).Company Polyus ...

The Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, Heritage Malta and the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Malta have joined forces to work closely together on the research and conservation of a Phoenician stone sarcophagus discover...

Prime Minister Robert Abela, who hasn't held a press conference where journalists can ask questions for a few days, evaded journalists this evening, refusing to take any questions.He was attending an event in Luqa. Journalists from a number of newsro...

A 64-year-old man has died while positive for Covid-19, health authorities said in their daily update on Thursday.Meanwhile, the number of new cases has increased over the 100 mark once again, with 126 new cases of the virus being reported.88 people ...

A planning application for a massive solar farm on agricultural land in Mgarr has been rejected by the Planning Authority.The case officer’s report read that the site in question, located Outside Development Zone, consists of an area mostly cha...

The Labour party is making use of three tools during its electoral campaign, 'lying, copying and taking taxpayer's money,' PN Leader Bernard Grech said on Thursday addressing a party rally in Qormi.He said that Prime Minister Robert Abela's campaign ...

The number of people sent fleeing Ukraine by Russia's invasion topped 1 million on Wednesday, the swiftest refugee exodus this century, the United Nations said, as Russian forces kept up their bombardment of the country's second-biggest city, Kharkiv...

Prime Minister Robert Abela pledged to tackle the issue of lengthy bureaucratic processes which hinder investment. In a meeting with the Malta Developers Association (MDA), Abela stressed on the importance that labour government would give to this is...

The Nationalist Party will incentivize the renting of property to ensure tenants can benefit from subsidies as well as more affordable properties, in the aim of reducing the burden of expensive property currently reigning in the country, said PN MP I...

A 21-year-old man has been arrested over the alleged stabbing of another man in Marsa on Wednesday afternoon.Police said in a statement that a 28-year-old man from Zebbug had walked into the Hamrun police station and alleged that he had been assaulte...

The mayor of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius has come up with a novel way of punishing Russia for its invasion of Ukraine: by changing the name of a street.Mayor Remigijus Simasius said a quiet alley in downtown Vilnius where the Russian embassy is lo...

KYIV, Ukraine — A member of Ukraine’s delegation in talks with Russia says the parties have reached a tentative agreement to organize safe corridors for civilians to evacuate and for humanitarian supplies to be delivered.Mykhailo Podolyak...

The U.N. human rights office says 227 civilians have been killed and another 525 injured in its latest count of the toll in Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s military invasion that began a week ago. The office of the U.N. High Commissioner f...

Din l-Art Ħelwa and The Archaeological Society Malta have filed an appeal to overturn the Planning Authority’s approval of 161 apartments in the Il-Girgħien area of Birżebbuġa, which they say will result in the total develop...

Faced with the threat of financial sanctions targeting Russians, Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich announced Wednesday he is trying to sell the Premier League club that became trophy-winning machine thanks to his lavish investment.The decision by the bi...

Much of the focus of the media is on the two main political parties.As the campaign leading to the 26 March intensifies, the parties are holding daily activities ranging from press conferences to walkabouts, from rallies to discussions, and it is exp...

The Malta Employers’ Association has issued a memorandum to political parties, stating its position on a wide range of socio-economic matters, together with its recommendations for a better Malta in the coming years. In its preamble, the d...

Prime Minister Robert Abela, while addressing a Labour event in Santa Lucia, announced that if elected by the Maltese population, his government will be increasing educators’ salaries substantially as part of widespread investment in the educat...

Lawrence Abina, 30, from Ghana, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Rita Ellul, who was found dead inside her Ghajnsielem home on Saturday.The 49-year-old mother of three was strangled to death and was found in her bed. TVM reported that it was A...

The Nationalist Party would, if elected, look into land reclamation and building offshore wind farms, PN leader Bernard Grech said on Wednesday night.Speaking at a party event in Msida, Grech said that the party is willing to look into the possibilit...

Since Russia launched a full-scale military invasion into Ukraine on 24 February, more than 100 civilians have died while tens of thousands of Ukrainians were forced to leave a life they know to flee to other countries.Two who managed to escape in ti...

Through the Cold War and the decades since, nothing could persuade Finns and Swedes that they would be better off joining NATO — until now.Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has profoundly changed Europe’s security outlook, incl...

Malta has suspended citizenship applications for Russian and Belarusian nationals until further notice because it cannot currently effectively carry out due diligence on such applicants.In a statement, the Parliamentary Secretariat for Citizenship an...

The Institute of Maltese Journalists (IGM) has categorically condemned the Labour Party’s decision to include journalist Manuel Delia in its latest election campaign billboard.The billboard, which reads ‘Bernard il-wicc tal-Passat’ ...

The Church’s Migrants Commission and the Archdiocese of Malta today launched a humanitarian home-hosting initiative open to homeless migrants and refugees in our midst who have been forced to flee trouble spots like Ukraine.Known as Proġet...

Transport Minister Ian Borg said Wednesday the decision to scrap the Marsascala yacht marina had been a “collective one” and he had been “one of those who put forward the concerns expressed by district MPs.”Last week, Prime Mi...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech announced a pack of proposals aimed at addressing work-life balance.One of these proposals is to extend paid paternity leave to 15 days, rather than the current one-day paternity leave.Addressing a press conference, Gr...

Juventus forward Dušan Vlahović was greeted with plenty of whistles and jeers on his return to Fiorentina on Wednesday for the first time since his acrimonious departure last month.But Vlahović departed with a victory as his new club...

A 77-year-old man has died while positive for Covid-19, health authorities said on Wednesday.It means that 606 people have now died while positive for the virus in Malta.94 new cases of the virus were meanwhile reported along with 70 recoveries, mean...

Facing a crisis off the field, Chelsea was in a spot of bother on it Wednesday when the team fell behind not just once but twice to a lower-league opponent in the FA Cup.In the end, the most expensive player of the Roman Abramovich era bailed Chelsea...

The surviving members of Miriam Pace’s family have filed a judicial letter against the State Advocate, claiming that the state’s failure to enact clear legislation regulating the construction industry had been a factor in Pace’s dea...

Nationalist MP Adrian Delia has withdrawn a libel case he instituted against Lovin Malta after the news portal retracted a story it had published about him sending messages to the man accused of masterminding the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.In A...

MOSCOW — A top aide for Russian President Vladimir Putin says Ukrainians are on their way to Belarus for talks that have been scheduled for Thursday.“As far as I know, the Ukrainian delegation has already departed from Kyiv, is en route ....

The Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs is offering to cover the accommodation costs of Ukrainian nationals and their dependents in the hotels recognised by the Malta Health Authorities as quarantine hotels, for those who need to quarantine in ...

ADPD has presented its electoral manifesto, which includes a wide range of proposals that impact directly on citizens’ rights such as constitutional changes and clean politics, economy, environment, waste and transport, education,health, sexual...

Regeneration work in Luqa’s industrial zone has started, which aims to give a new and improved appearance to the zone and is to benefit 120 small and medium-sized businesses, Economy Minister Silvio Schembri announced on Wednesday.850 meters of...

Plans for a pontoon to be built in Balluta Bay to become a commercial port, which was approved by the Planning Authority, has officially been withdrawn, St Julian’s mayor Albert Buttigieg said yesterday.Fortina Group, an enterprise for tourist ...

The daughter of the woman who was murdered in Gozo has said that the only way she can comfort her own daughter is to tell her that her grandma became an angel.Rita Ellul was murdered in Ghajnsielem last Saturday. An autopsy confirmed Tuesday that she...

Ukraine’s leader decried Russia's escalation of attacks on crowded urban areas as a blatant campaign of terror, while U.S. President Joe Biden warned that if his Russian counterpart weren’t made to “pay a price” for the invasi...

Representatives of the Ukrainian community in Malta thanked the Maltese government and Maltese citizens for the support shown towards Ukrainian people in light of their current circumstances. The representatives met with Foreign and European Affairs ...

Around 14 tonnes of items have been collected to help Ukrainians, One of the collection drive organisers in Mellieha, Georgina Devlin-George, told The Malta Independent.It all started when a Polish national, Renata Kreglicka, wanted to collect items ...

While we may be in the middle of a general election campaign, world issues are dominating the conversation.Ukraine is the foremost topic on the list. Countries around the world are condemning the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, where a war rages on. R...

The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) is working to offer free accommodation covering the quarantine period required by law for Ukraine asylum seekers.The members of the MHRA expressed their solidarity with the citizens of Ukraine, "esp...

Malta has long been working towards more digital solutions. Offering digital public service and making it easier to conduct different businesses through the internet. How has this worked so far? This article presents a look at the Maltese Government&...

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola delivered a rousing speech in the European Parliament about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, setting out 'four important principles for our future'.Firstly, she said, Europe can no longer remain reliant o...

Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelenskyy gave a heartfelt speech in the European Parliament calling for Ukraine to form part of the Union, claiming that "an integral Europe cannot leave Ukraine out."Starting off, Zelenskyy gave a brief roundup of the p...

Standing events out in the open without the need for a vaccine certificate can be held on the 10th of April, rather than the initial 11 April, upon consultations with several localities and the curia, including Archbishop Charles Scicluna, so that Pa...

The detention of the man accused of masterminding the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia did not breach his human rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled.Yorgen Fenech, who was arrested in connection with the murder of Caruana Galiz...

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) Teresa Ribeiro presented a legal analysis of two Maltese draft laws on media, the OSCE said in a statement."This analysis is written by an independent international media expert and concerns Malt...

The Russian ambassador to Malta has been suspended from having honorary membership at the Casino Maltese, its members have been informed.The Casino Maltese is a social club created in 1852, with premises in Republic Street, Valletta.Russia’s am...

Since Malta started recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, the PN has been trying to freeze the economy, Prime Minister Robert Abela said during a political event on Tuesday.Whilst delivering a speech in Mosta, Abela explained how the economy remains...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said on Tuesday that a new Nationalist government would promote and invest in the Maltese language, culture, arts and crafts sectors in every possible way. During a PN political event organised in Żejtun, Gre...

First Manchester United, now Tottenham.Second-tier Middlesbrough is toppling some of English soccer's biggest clubs in its FA Cup run.A goal at the start of the second half of extra time earned Middlesbrough a 1-0 win over Tottenham in the fifth roun...

Inter Milan’s miserable month continued when it drew 0-0 against city rival AC Milan in first leg of their Italian Cup semifinal on Tuesday.Inter has won only one of its past seven matches in all competitions since the start of February. That r...

Throughout the early hours of Tuesday news broke that Colonel Oleksandr Oksanchenko, a Ukrainian air force fighter pilot, was killed while defending his country’s capital from Russian fighter jets. Oksanchenko, who was nicknamed ‘Gre...

A new PN government will focus on immediate and long-term solutions for pensioners and the elderly, said PN deputy leader David Agius and PN candidate Ian Vassallo, addressing a press conference in Pieta on Tuesday.Vassallo said that through several ...

Independent candidate Arnold Cassola has filed a complaint with the Chairperson of the Broadcasting Authority, arguing that neither he, nor other candidates have received any invitation to appear in political debates or discussions with PN and PL rep...

The Nationalist Party is putting 10,000 families at risk with its recent rent law proposal, Minister for social accommodation Roderick Galdes said.Galdes said that the PN's proposal for pre-1995 leases will affect 10,000 families, and not in a good w...

86 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Tuesday.64 people have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases has increased to 714.No new deaths as a result of the virus were reported.38 patients are current...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Chris Fearne alongside Minister for Inclusion, Social Wellbeing and Voluntary Organisations Julia Farrugia Portelli launched the scheme for occupational therapy support, which will reduce waiting time for...

Dutch MP and the General Rapporteur to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Pieter Omtzigt said that the Maltese government has failed to get the controversy of the golden passport scheme, where citizenship is bought by Russians amongs...

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian shelling has pounded the main central square in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, and other civilian targets.Meanwhile on Tuesday, a convoy 65 kilometers (40 miles) long of tanks and other vehicles threatened...

We are in the second week of the election campaign, with the two major political parties upping the tempo as we head towards the day the collective decision will be made.All media houses are in full swing and in spite of having limited resources they...

Russian shelling pounded civilian targets in Ukraine's second-largest city again Tuesday and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital — tactics Ukraine’s embattled president said were designed to force him into ...

The political broadcast schedule for Election 2022 proposed by the Broadcasting Authority ignores the fact that the PN and the PL have their own radio and TV stations, ADPD said in a statement. This should be taken in consideration in the allocation ...

The Parliamentary Secretary for citizenship, Alex Muscat, refused to say whether Malta will stop selling passports to wealthy Russians, arguing that “not all Russians are bad.”There have been several calls for Malta to stop selling passpo...

A top adviser to Ukraine’s president says the first round of talks with Russia about ending the fighting in Ukraine has concluded, and more talks could happen soon.Meanwhile, Ukraine’s president has signed an application for his country t...

Prime Minister Robert Abela is not prepared nor focused on his electoral campaign; in fact, he is ‘taking notes’ from the PN’s electoral program, said Opposition leader Bernard Grech, addressing a political rally in Paola on Monday....

Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Monday that Opposition Leader Bernard Grech is “a representation of the past.”During a Labour Party political event in Birkirkara, Abela spoke about a number of proposals put forward by the Labour Party...

Prime Minister Robert Abela announced that Malta will be offering oncology services to Ukrainian nationals fleeing war.Such services which include chemo and radiation therapy, will be offered at the Sir Anthony Mamo oncology centre next to Mater Dei ...

Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said on Monday that the government is using the €200 million budget aid to reduce costs caused by the Russia and Ukraine conflict. In the 2022 Budget, the government had set aside a sum of money which would al...

Caritas Malta in collaboration with Caritas Internationalis is appealing for money donations to help the people in Ukraine who are currently going through great hardship due to the war. The Russian Federation and Ukraine are currently in a state...

Prime Minister Robert Abela has said that the government has ‘taken measures to ensure that Steward Health Care pays the tax that it is owed.’The Malta Independent on Sunday revealed how Vitals Global Health Care had used public funds to ...

Russian teams have been suspended from international soccer after the country's invasion of Ukraine.The decision came Monday from FIFA and UEFA, saying Russia's national teams and clubs were suspended “until further notice.”“Footbal...

The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses (MUMN) said on Monday that unless new nurses are deployed in Karin Grech Hospital, a directive will be issued to nurses to refuse any new patient admissions from 1 March. In a press statement, MUMN said tha...

Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Robert Abela has announced a new set of PL proposals relating to families and children, including the provision of free laptops to secondary school students and the extension of the government's free childcare s...

The Nationalist Party, if elected to government, pledges to cut down income tax to €15% on the first €500,000 profit made by businesses, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said Monday.This was one of the proposals put forward by the PN as it s...

Misraħ is-Sebgħa ta’ Ġunju 1919 in Ħamrun, which so far has been used only as a parking space,will be embellished with 700 tress on a roof garden and a vertical garden together with a lift, making it accessible to everyone.D...

A 76-year-old woman is the latest victim of the Covid-19 pandemic, as 40 new cases of the virus were reported on Monday by health authorities.61 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases is now down to 69...

Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the next 18 years with an “unavoidable” increase in risks, a ...

U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says her office has confirmed that 102 civilians, including 7 children, have been killed, and 304 others injured in violence in Ukraine since Thursday, as she cautioned that the tally was likely a vast underc...

Prime Minister Robert Abela refused to answer questions about his involvement in a property deal back in 2018 with a man charged with serious crimes.The Times of Malta reported that the deal netted Abela €45,000, “but the timeline of event...

KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has signed an application for Ukraine to join the European Union.The action comes five days after Russia invaded its smaller neighbor, touching off widespread international condem...

Franco Debono has said that he will not be contesting the next general election as a candidate, days after PN leader Bernard Grech left the door open for the former MP to return to the political scene.Grech had said last week that he would not exclud...

Whilst it is a well-known fact that during the time of the Order of St. John in Malta, the management and administration of its hospital - known as the Sacra Infermeria - was almost entirely male-dominated, as indeed was practically every other secto...

The Police Force has denied that an inspector who was involved in investigations which include that of a man who sent threatening letters to political figures was ‘demoted’, saying that the officer in question had already been stationed t...

One week down, four to go.  Malta’s electoral campaign properly kicked off in the past week.  Party machinery clicked into gear soon after Prime Minister Robert Abela announced that the country would go to the polls on 26 March.Press ...

47.6% of the respondents to a survey have said that they would still vote for or consider voting for their preferred political party, even if that party is involved in a corruption scandal.The survey, commissioned by the University of Malta’s F...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna has said that nations cannot wage war in an effort to seek security.On the sidelines of the Mediterranean Forum in Florence, Archbishop Scicluna lamented the conflict in Ukraine, saying war can only bring destruction and n...

President Vladimir Putin dramatically escalated East-West tensions by ordering Russian nuclear forces put on high alert following new crippling Western sanctions that forced his Central Bank to sharply raise its key rate Monday to save the ruble from...

An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen in a hold-up in St Paul’s Bay on Monday morning.Two hooded men, one of whom armed with a knife, entered the shop in Efesu Street at 12.45am, demanding money from the cashier, a 55-year-old Englishman.The...

Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Robert Abela has promised a plan of 1,000 ideas for Malta's future.Speaking during a mass rally in Naxxar on Sunday, Abela revealed little in the way of new PL proposals for the 26 March general election, but pr...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said on Sunday that Prime Minister Robert Abela will be contesting on the fifth district because he wants to undermine his own colleagues.During a Nationalist Party rally held in Żurrieq, Grech confirmed once agai...

FIFA drew a swift backlash from European nations for not immediately expelling Russia from World Cup qualifying on Sunday and only ordering the country to play without its flag and anthem at neutral venues under the name of its federation — the...

Foreign and European Affairs Minister Evarist Bartolo continued to strongly condemn Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine during the Foreign Affairs Council video-conference on 27 February.  On the EU’s proposal to provid...

Vitals Global Healthcare (VGH) used public funds on luxury cars and apartments, sources told The Malta Independent on Sunday.Sources told this newsroom that VGH had spent funds given by the government on Mercedes cars as well as high-end apartments i...