Tag: Malta

Malta detains second charity ship as death toll at sea rises

VALLETTA: For the second time in a week, Malta on Monday detained a humanitarian vessel that normally rescues boat migrants off the coast of...

Malta will take in migrant rescue ship, says Italy

ROME: Malta will let the rescue ship Lifeline dock after Italy refused it entry, ending the vessel's near week-long wait in the Mediterranean with...

Italy asks Malta to take in, seize migrant rescue ship

ROME: Italy on Friday urged Malta to take in a ship carrying more than 200 rescued migrants as the new government pressures European partners...

Three men charged in Malta for murder of anti-corruption journalist

VALLETTA: A magistrate on Tuesday charged three men with murder over a car-bomb blast that killed anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, court officials said. Caruana...

Maltese journalist’s son says she was murdered for exposing corruption

VALLETTA: The son of Malta’s best-known investigative journalist said on Tuesday his mother was killed by a car bomb because of her work exposing...

Journalist linked to Panama Papers killed by huge bomb in Malta

ALETTA: Daphne Caruana Galizia — Malta’s best-known investigative journalist — was killed on Monday when a powerful bomb blew up her car, police said,...

Malta hijack ends peacefully as Gaddafi loyalists surrender

Hijackers armed with what were probably replica weapons forced an airliner to land in Malta on Friday before freeing all their hostages unharmed and...