NGO Repubblika is summoning former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's lawyer Pawlu Lia to testify after his daughter-in-law, Magistrate Nadine Lia, refused to recuse herself.Addressing the media on Thursday, Repubblika president Robert Aquilina said that...

The Federation for Hunting and Conservation (FKNK) said Thursday that research shows that turtle dove hunting is sustainable.The FKNK said that the result obtained from the data collected voluntarily by the organisation in September 2021, with regard...

The SOS Mediterranee charity is urgently seeking a port to safely unload 460 people rescued from the sea in 10 different operations last week who are now packed onto its Ocean Viking rescue ship.A nurse on board, identified only as Rebecca, said the ...

The moment that the black wall telephone rang early on the morning of Sept. 29, 1978, in Stefania Falasca's Rome apartment is imprinted in her mind. Then 15, Falasca remembers her father answering and hearing the voice of her uncle, a priest who work...

It was in December 1989, on what will remembered as one of the coldest and stormy weekends ever to hit Malta, that then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met then US President George H. W. Bush in Marsaxlokk Harbour, a meeting which is regarded as havi...

A 20-month old baby girl died after being hit by a massive hailstone during a fierce storm in the northeastern Spanish town of La Bisbal d’Empordà, officials said Wednesday.Town mayor Carme Vall told Spanish National Television the baby ...

The magistrate compiling evidence against Marsaxlokk parish priest Fr Luke Seguna has decreed that there are sufficient grounds for his indictment.The decree was given by Magistrate Natasha Galea Sciberras at the end of Wednesday’s sitting in t...

The autumn hunting season on wild birds is set to open from Thursday, 1 September 2022, permitting the hunting of 500 Turtle-doves, against recommendations from an expert EU task force, BirdLife said in a statement. The Government’s decision to...

The Minister for Environment, Energy and Enterprise Miriam Dalli has promised that the government will continue to foster stability in energy prices, but stopped short of guaranteeing that there will be no price increases in 2023.In comments to journ...

Minister Miriam Dalli announced on Wednesday that the government will invest a maximum of €74 million in renewable energy over 20 years, through a new investment scheme for large-scale renewable energy projects.The Ministry of Environment, Energ...

Former Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici’s health has improved to the point that he is on the verge of being discharged from hospital, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Wednesday.Mifsud Bonnici was admitted to Mater Dei Hospital on Sunday...

Malta will continue to strengthen its relations with Libya and its people, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Wednesday.Following a one-on-one meeting with the Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, Abela said that Malta will continue to offer i...

24 new Covid cases were registered on Wednesday, as the number of active cases dropped by two.No more deaths were recorded.Malta currently has 127 active cases of the virus.Malta has had a total of 114,050 Covid cases since the start of the pandemic,...

The New York Yankees have purchased a minority stake in Italian soccer champion AC Milan, which announced the closing of its latest ownership change Wednesday.RedBird Capital Partners completed the deal to purchase a controlling interest in...

Judith Bakoush and Murat Nazwan had instructed the former's seven-year-old son to throw away drug sachets if police raided their Valletta property, a court has been told.The boy was found by police during a recent raid on two properties in Valletta, ...

Erling Haaland is taking English soccer by storm.Back-to-back hat tricks. Nine goals in five games. No player has ever made as good a start to the Premier League as the towering Norway striker.Haaland's latest three-goal haul came in the first half o...

Dušan Vlahović continued his impressive start to the season as he set Juventus on its way to a 2-0 win over Spezia in Serie A on Wednesday.Vlahović scored in the ninth minute for his fourth goal in as many matches. New signing Arkadi...

Prime Minister Robert Abela has not yet taken action on the Transport Malta corruption case, and Transport Malta had a mechanism in place which was working only to make things easier for the few, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said Wednesday.Giving ...

SBT Japan has cut ties with Rokku and Tal-Qasab car dealers, independent politician Arnold Cassola has said.Early in June, Maltatoday reported how two car dealers ( Rokku and Tal-Qasab) sold imported cars from Japan after allegedly tampering wit...

The NGO Repubblika has reacted to the latest government scandal, which concerns Transport Malta, by saying that corruption has seeped into every area of life in Malta.An unnamed government minister and political party were linked to a corruption case...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. The last Soviet leader was 91.Gorbachev died after...

The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and for many the man who restored democracy to then-communist-ruled European nations, was mourned Wednesday as the loss of a rare leader who changed the world and for a time g...

Attorneys for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil complaint against two foreign individuals and a Malta-based company.Federal securities regulators on Tuesday formally accused a North Carolina-based insurance magnate, an associa...

In a joint initiative between various entities that fall under the responsibility of the Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Enterprise, just over two tonnes of waste was retrieved from the seabed off the Senglea shore.The entities involved were...

A motorcyclist was grievously injured in a collision in Birzebbuga on Wednesday morning.The police said the accident took place in Birzebbuga Road at 9.30am.The biker, a 57-year-old man from the locality, was riding a Keeway which was involved in a c...

Enemalta has announced the appointment of Inġ. Ryan Fava as the Chairperson of its Board of Directors. Fava graduated in engineering at the University of Malta and continued his studies at Brunel University London, before working as an engineer ...

A man arrested at a stable in Marsa told police he worked as a drug supplier for Judith Bakoush and Murat Nazwan.Bakoush and Nazwan are facing separate drug trafficking charges. The court heard in an earlier sitting on Wednesday how the couple i...

The NGO Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar brought to public attention a plan to build offices, meeting rooms, a shop and a restaurant on public, open space between Gzira Gardens and the yacht marina quay.An application for the project was submitted by Tran...

Above all, there was shock. That's the word people use when they remember Princess Diana's death in a Paris car crash 25 years ago today.The woman the world watched grow from a shy teenage nursery school teacher into a glamorous celebrity, who comfor...

In its judgement dated 26 May 2021, Antonio Camilleri, in the name and representation of Antonio’s Barber Shop vs Salvatore Sicurella, the Court of Appeal, presided over by the Honorary Lawrence Mintoff, confirmed a decision of the Court of Mag...

The Nationalist Party has proposed that speed trackers should be implemented on e-scooters in order to regulate their speed and that helmets for users should be mandatory for all scooter users.If the speed limit is exceeded then the user will receive...

When you are packing to go abroad, the common things to think about are your luggage and what you are going to put in that luggage. And fair enough, luggage is probably the most important consideration when packing to go away. However, thro...

A St Vincent De Paul employee, suspended over the disappearance of a dementia patient who was found dead two weeks later, has filed a judicial protest, accusing the authorities of ignor...

With Steward Healthcare registering a €6 million profit on concessions paid to it by the government to run three state hospitals, MUMN has expressed its shock at the news, stating that money could have been spent elsewhere.MUMN president Paul Pa...

A surge in fighting on the southern front line and a Ukrainian claim of new attacks on Russian positions fed speculation Tuesday that a long-expected counteroffensive to try to turn the tide of war has started.Officials in Kyiv, though, warned agains...

The Public Broadcasting Service has been ordered to pay a fine of €3,610 by the Broadcasting Authority for breaching the law by airing footage showing a murder victim receiving CPR.The footage in question related to the murder of Egyptian nation...

The Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) is being launched for a second time to aid and empower businesswomen once again. Following the success of the first entrepreneurship program by AWE, a second programme has been launched, which has received ev...

A boat with migrants on-board, including women and children, that had been lost in Maltese waters after escaping from Libya has been found.Originally, the boat was thought to have 17 people on-board, but the number turned out to be 18.A Tweet by M&ea...

Former Transport Minister Ian Borg has said that he was not involved in an alleged corruption racket at Transport Malta – a racket which was exposed in court on Monday.An unnamed government minister was linked to a corruption case surrounding d...

A survey conducted by the Faculty for Social Wellbeing revealed that 54.6% of people have a sense of loneliness. This was an 11% increase over a similar survey conducted in 2019.That is a significant rise in this statistic, and represents more than h...

Chelsea is getting precious little return for being the biggest-spending team in Europe this summer.And it's not escaping the attention of Thomas Tuchel, either.“It does not take a lot to beat us,” the Chelsea manager said after a 2-1 los...

his was just what José Mourinho had in mind when he lured Paulo Dybala to join Roma instead of a host of other suitors.Dybala scored twice in less than a quarter of an hour — his first goals since joining Roma after h...

Cleaning and consolidation works are being carried out in Fort Delimara to improve the fort’s appearance as well as provide better the accessibility in its main areas.In the past year, extensive works have been carried out inside the fort, some...

Developer Mark Agius, who is one of Joseph Portelli’s business associates, is requesting an additional floor for the already approved 10-storey hotel near university, to make it an 11-story hotel.The plans to construct this hotel are found on t...

A man has died after falling three storeys from his residence in Triq il-Ġojjin in Fgura on Tuesday morning.The man has been identified as a 59-year-old Maltese national.Police said in a statement that the tragedy happened at around 8:45am while...

26 new Covid cases were registered on Tuesday, as the number of active cases dropped by one.No more deaths were recorded.Malta currently has 129 active cases of the virus.Malta has had a total of 114,026 Covid cases since the start of the pandemic, o...

A government minister has been linked to a corruption case surrounding driving theory tests involving three Transport Malta officials. Transport Malta director for the Land Transport Directorate Clint Mansueto, former Żebbuġ Labour councill...

The Nationalist Party is demanding that the minister who is being linked to the Transport Malta corruption case which emerged on Monday resigns from his role.This comes after it was revealed on Monday afternoon that an unnamed minister is linked to a...

The sun was shining, the sand was glistening and the rugby was flowing as almost 100 members of Malta’s rugby community flocked to Pretty Bay in Birzebbuga earlier this month to play out what can be considered as the first competition of the 20...

MALTA 5CROATIA 19(0-2), (1-3), (2-7), (2-7) The defeat against the hosts was expected and it materialised with Croatia proving to be too strong for Malta.Malta could do little or nothing against one of the top teams in the waterpolo world and on...

A 46-year-old woman from Għaxaq was handed two year suspended sentence and fined €28,000 after she was found guilty of fraud, money laundering, and of failing to declare her income from fortune telling. Maria Magdalena Sultana had also been...

A boat with 17 migrants, including women and children, has been lost in Maltese waters after escaping from Libya, an NGO said on Monday.NGO Alarm Phone tweeted that contact with the boat was lost last night. Alarm Phone also attempted to get in conta...

Kayak for Charity duo Dorian Vassallo and Albert Gambina will set off on their 75km kayak journey around Malta Tuesday.Announced on Gambina’s Facebook page, the duo will set off from the beach in front of Alfresco restaurant in Birzebbuga early...

Fresh from their successful run in the Uefa Conference League, Ħamrun Spartans finally kicked off their domestic campaign againt reigning Champions Hibernians. And they started with a bang grabbing the first three points following a tense match....

A ship which ran aground off Qawra in 2018 has been sunk off Gozo, becoming a new diving attraction.The Hephaesteus, which ran aground in February 2018, was scuttled near Xatt l- Aħmar in Gozo, with the Tourism Ministry saying that it would pres...

Ramzi Abdulhafid Ib Abukem is still being sought after by police, the force said in a statement on Monday morning.Ib Abukem is wanted in relation to an ongoing investigation, police had said when they first released a statement on him last Thursday.L...

A survey conducted by the Faculty for Social Wellbeing revealed that 54.6% of people have a sense of loneliness, which is a significant rise from the last survey the faculty conducted in 2019, when the figure stood at 43.5%.The survey was conducted w...

A new focus on innovative ways of reaching real sustainability and effective management to safeguard marine biodiversity is urgently needed, University of Malta Conservation biologist professor Adriana Vella said.The degradation of the Maltese seas a...

In the second quarter, Malta's economic growth rose to 9%, the highest in the EU and more than twice the average, Prime Minister Robert Abela Tweeted.A statement by the National Statistics Office read that provisional estimates indicate that the Gros...

€4,600 in donations has already been collected in the fundraiser set up for the repatriation of Kristina Zivanovic's body.Zivanovic was the 23-year-old Serbian woman who was involved in a bus traffic accident in Birkirkara last Wednesday. She wa...

A former official of the Foundation for Tomorrow's Schools (FTS), Edward Caruana, who faced criminal charges of bribery and corruption, has been acquitted.Caruana, who was a former canvasser for Education Minister Evarist Bartolo, was facing charges ...

Italian authorities scrambled on Sunday to relieve overcrowding in shelters after scores of boats carrying a total of about 1,000 migrants reached Italy’s southern shores and two of its tiny islands over the weekend.Nearly 50 boats ar...

11 new Covid cases were registered on Monday, as the number of active cases continued to drop.No more deaths were recorded.Malta has had a total of 114,000 Covid cases since the start of the pandemic, of which 112,673 recovered. A total of 801 people...

In July 2022, the number of persons registering for work stood at 925, decreasing by 617 when compared to the corresponding month in 2021, the National Statistics Office said."Data provided by Jobsplus for July 2022 indicates a year-on-year decrease ...

The Highway Code is set to be updated.This news was revealed by the senior inspector of the police traffic branch, Nicholas Vella, during an interview with The Malta Independent on Sunday.The last time the Highway Code received an update was in ...

Two major trade unions said they are open to discussions on a review of the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) mechanism, but only after the 2023 Budget is presented.As a result of a high inflation, the COLA for 2023 is expected to be between €8 a...

The Highway Code is set to be updated and regulations for e-scooters are planned for the near future, the senior inspector of the police traffic branch, Nicholas Vella, told The Malta Independent on Sunday.The inspector was interviewed on aspects reg...

A proposal being made by the General Workers Union for the coming government Budget is for the drafting of legislation for gig and platform workers, for them to start being considered as employees.“Currently they are not considered to be employ...

UHM Voice of the Workers CEO Josef Vella wants the upcoming Budget to include a set of measures aimed at strengthening the middle class.In an interview with The Malta Independent on Sunday, Vella was asked about the government’s plan to introdu...

The story starts in mid-March, almost a month after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “Many of us had relatives living in Mykolaiv. We knew the city would come under attack, so we brought our loved ones back to Lotskino. We be...

Not all career paths are conventional.  But it’s generally the less conventional career paths which are the most fascinating.That statement stands the test in the case of Jacqueline Grech Licari.  A Maltese University of Malta graduat...

The minister responsible for hunting Clint Camilleri and the FKNK have come to an agreement as to how hunters can hunt turtle doves and over a "research project" involving the capturing of songbirds during autumn.In a statement, the FKNK said that th...

A recent analysis conducted by FIFA entitled Analysis of a Talent Development Ecosystem revealed that “the MFA’s youth national teams play fewer matches than the top 20, 50 and 100 countries in the FIFA world ranking”.This informati...

Two high-rise apartment towers in India were leveled to the ground in a controlled demolition on Sunday after the country's top court declared them illegal for violating building norms, officials said. They became India's tallest structures to be raz...

Balzan registered their second consecutive win when in a match in which they dominated for long stretches they beat Santa Lucia by two first half goals.Balzan went into this match following a 3-1 win over Zebbug Rangers in their first outing. Their o...

Harry Kane used to be regarded as a slow starter to Premier League seasons.Not this time.The England captain scored for the third straight game with his double earning Tottenham a 2-0 win at Nottingham Forest on Sunday and taking Kane to third in the...

Three rounds into Serie A and parity is again the theme of the Italian league.After last season's title was decided on the final day of the season, there are already no longer any clubs with perfect records in this campaign.Napoli, the last squad tha...

17 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Sunday, and the number of active cases has dropped to 145.No more deaths have been reported.Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 113,989 virus cases in the country, of which 112,647 recovered. A to...

A 27-year-old woman was grievously injured in a traffic accident at 8.15pm on Saturday.The accident was on Triq Alamein, in Pembroke and involved a Toyota Hi-Ace van driven by a 43-year-old man, and an Opel Adam driven by the woman.She was taken to M...

Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen quickly carved his way through the field from 14th to win the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday and widen his lead in the title race.Verstappen, who in the final race before F1's summer break drove from 10th ...

We have been told that when Prime Minister Robert Abela was on holiday this summer, and on other occasions, he did not pass on his duties as Malta’s head of government to the second-in-command.No notice was published in the Government Gazette t...

Deadly clashes broke out Saturday in Libya's capital between militias backed by its two rival administrations, portending a return to violence amid a long political stalemate.At least 23 people were killed and 140 more wounded, the Health Ministry sa...

Pope Francis elevated 20 more churchmen to the rank of cardinal on Saturday, formally expanding those now eligible to vote for his successor in case he dies or resigns — the latter a step he has said he’d consider if the need arises.Of th...

Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar is strongly objecting to a planned project to build offices, meeting rooms, a shop and restaurant on thepublic open space/road between Gzira Gardens and the yacht marina quay. This violates the need for open...

A biker was grievously injured on Friday evening after he lost control of the hike he was riding and crashed, the police said.The accident happened in Great Siege Road, at 10.30pm.The biker, a 30-year-old man residing in St Paul’s Bay, was take...

A deep-cover spy from Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, who spent a decade posing as a Latin American jewellery designer and partied with Nato staff based in Naples, had earlier been in Malta, investigators say.A team of investiga...

Valletta: Chemimart 20/21, Republic Street; Ħamrun: Remedies Pharmacy, 211, St Joseph High Road; Qormi: Pinto Pharmacy, 43, St Sebastian Street; Birkirkara: Brown's Quad Pharmacy, The Quad Q2, Unit 3, Level 00, Mrieħel Bypass Central Busine...

There were 21 new Covid-19 cases reported on Saturday, with the number of deaths now reaching 801.The total number of cases registered is now 113,972, with 112,621 people who recovered.The number of active cases is now 154.The Health Ministry stopped...

Keywords Studios, an international technical services provider to the global video games industry employing 11,000 people, has now set firm plans to set up operations in Malta. Established in 1998, and now with over 70 facilities in 24 countries...

This week’s announcement that the University of Malta will have its budget allocation for this year reduced by more than €1 million with more reductions next year is a sheer example of this Government’s misguided priorities, ADPD sai...

Floriana and Sirens shared four goals and took a point each in an entertaining match which saw Sirens take a two goal lead and the Greens levelling matters in the space of two minutes following the dismissal of Alexander Cini.In the first match of th...

After a winless start to the season and a dispiriting loss to its archrival, Liverpool needed to make a statement against Bournemouth on Saturday.A 9-0 win, equaling the record for the biggest ever victory in the English Premier League, sends a loud ...

Roma forward Paulo Dybala returned to Juventus and helped in the equalizer though his new team lost its perfect start to Serie A on Saturday and it could have been much worse for José Mourinho’s side.Dušan Vlahović scored aft...

COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna is suing Pfizer and the German drugmaker BioNTech, accusing its main competitors of copying Moderna’s technology in order to make their own vaccine.Moderna said Friday that Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine Comi...

Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence, ...

The economic belt is tightening. Rising prices across Europe have made pretty much everything more expensive. Some of these burdens (such as rising food prices) are being shouldered by the consumer, while others (such as subsidies to keep energy pric...

A Lebanese submarine has found the remains of at least 10 migrants who drowned when their boat sank earlier this year off the coast of Lebanon with about 30 people on board, the navy announced Friday.The boat, carrying dozens of Lebanese, Syrian...

Carlos Sainz Jr. will start from the pole Sunday at the Belgian Grand Prix because runaway Formula One points leader Max Verstappen was among the many drivers to be hit with grid penalties.Sainz was actually second fastest to Verstappen in Saturday q...

Prime Minister Robert Abela played down inflation woes, saying that there is the reassurance that government income is a positive and strong one. Speaking in an interview on ONE Radio, Abela spoke about facing international challenges on three main p...