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28 July 2026, Tuesday

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Yorgen Fenech trial: Keith Schembri claims defence lawyers offered to bribe witness

The jury in Yorgen Fenech's murder will co tinue today with more witnesses being brought up by the prosecution. On Monday, two former Scene of Crime Officers described the operation as highly...

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Schembri alleges €400,000 bribe but witness refuses to answer questions

Former Office of the Prime Minister chief of staff Keith Schembri told jurors on Tuesday that Johann Cremona had been offered up to €400,000 by Yorgen Fenech's lawyers to testify in the...

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PN wants NAO report on 2023 power cuts crisis discussed in Parliamentary committee

The Nationalist Party will be filing a request for Parliament's Public Accounts Committee to discuss the National Audit Office's report into the spate of power cuts which enveloped Malta in 2023, days...

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Momentum files Freedom of Information request on July deaths and heat-related hospital admissions

Momentum said it has filed a Freedom of Information request related to the number of heat-related deaths and hospital adminssions in July, when Malta was going through a prolonged heat-wave. The...

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Renewal process of around 160,000 identity cards successfully completed

The process to renew around 160,000 identity cards has been successfully completed by Identità, the Employment Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. During a visit to Identità,...

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TMID Editorial: Stronger laws and tougher penalties are essential

There comes a point when repeated incidents can no longer be dismissed as isolated events. Malta appears to have reached that point. The scenes witnessed in recent weeks - groups of revellers...

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Euro 2020 winning coach Roberto Mancini returns to rescue Italy after third straight World Cup miss

Roberto Mancini has once again been tasked with revitalizing an Italy team in crisis, almost exactly three years after he bolted on the national team. Italian soccer federation Giovanni...

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Updated: PL Qormi councillor admits to threatening LESA, police officer; suspended from party

Labour Party local councillor Daniel Ablett is set to be charged with assaulting a LESA official, with the PL saying that it has suspended him from the party as a result. Ablett is to be charged...

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France evacuates 4,000 more people as heat threatens wildfire fight across southwestern Europe

French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 more people to evacuate Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters' fragile hold on a vast wildfire west...

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Home Affairs Minister meets Italian counterpart in bilateral meeting

Malta's Minister for Home Affairs and Security, Glenn Bedingfield, met Italy's Home Affairs Minister, Matteo Piantedosi reaffirming the strong and longstanding relationship between the neighbouring...

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Works begin on new €75 million Organic Processing Plant

Construction of the new Organic Processing Plant has officially begun, with site mobilisation, excavation works, and the construction of a perimeter retaining wall already in progress, the government...

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Stalling vaccines

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Gozo's economic growth

Romilda Zarb

From hope to parenthood: How Labour’s IVF reforms changed lives

Marilena Gauci

Malta's film industry deserves better

Michael Briguglio

Buses, numbers, people

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The generation that climbed (Part IV): Where the attack on legal migration leads

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The ministry at the helm

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Band clubs: Schools of culture, values and community

Jerome Caruana Cilia

Strengthening inclusive higher education in Malta through student partnership

France hires former football great Zinedine Zidane as national team coach

Zinedine Zidane is France's new coach, replacing Didier Deschamps at the helm of the team he led to glory as arguably its greatest ever player. French Football Federation president Philippe...

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‘Malta deserves better growth,’ Malta Chamber President tells Prime Minister, ministers

The President of the Malta Chamber of Commerce, William Spiteri Bailey, told Prime Minister Robert Abela and several ministers that "Malta deserves better growth" during a ministerial meeting...

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Prime Minister Abela says he has full faith in Energy Minister Miriam Dalli

Prime Minister Robert Abela has said that he has full faith in Energy Minister Miriam Dalli, amid calls for her to resign after thousands of residents across Malta suffered through a spate of power...

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latest comment from RF, 28/07/2026 02:48: Malta's future in the hands of morons!

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Police seized only devices pointed out by Keith Schembri, Yorgen Fenech trial hears

The trial by jury of Yorgen Fenech resumes before Madam Justice Edwina Grima on Monday, with a new set of witnesses expected to take the stand as prosecutors continue presenting evidence in the case...

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‘He would point at the items and we would take those,’ officer says on Keith Schembri house search

Police officers conducting a search at Keith Schembri's Mellieħa residence in November 2019 only collected electronic devices pointed out by Schembri himself, despite other phones being visible...

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latest comment from RF, 28/07/2026 02:46: What a shame of police investigations! Are we to have confidence in the Commissioner Gafa' who assured us that there were no others involved in the heinous assassination of Mrs Daphne Caruana Galizia besides the accused Yorgen Fenech? Their actions confirm my belief that the murder was hatched at Castille and the blood money came from public funds like the phantom job to Melvin Theuma.

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Abela announces overhaul of farmer classification rules as Ta’ Qali market set for September start

The government this week will publish revised regulations governing the classification of farmers and livestock breeders, with Prime Minister Robert Abela saying the changes will simplify procedures...

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Parliament rises for summer recess until 5 October

Parliament has been adjourned until 5 October for its summer recess. The announcement marks the start of Parliament's summer recess, with the House expected to resume its sittings on 5 October,...

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Two charged over Paceville altercation which left police officer injured

Two young men were brought before the Magistrates' Court on Monday following an early-morning altercation in Paceville that resulted in an injured police officer. One was handed a two-year...

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Euro 2020 winning coach Roberto Mancini returns to rescue Italy after third straight World Cup miss

France hires former football great Zinedine Zidane as national team coach

Andrea Pirlo out of contention for Italy job amid controversy over deal with Russian betting firm

Norris ends wait for F1 win in Hungary as Antonelli stretches championship lead

Norris snatches pole at Hungarian Grand Prix as Hamilton and Antonelli hit with penalties

Father and five-year-old son died instantly in Ġnejna boating tragedy, autopsy finds

Gregory O'Brien, 43, and his five-year-old son Logan died instantly after the dinghy they were travelling in was struck by a fishing boat off Ġnejna Bay early on Sunday, an autopsy has...

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Ta’ Ġieżu friars insist concerns are genuine, urge authorities to tackle ‘illegalities and noise’

The Franciscan friars at Ta' Ġieżu church in Valletta have defended their integrity amid controversy over their objections to entertainment venues operating in the area, insisting their...

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latest comment from RF, 27/07/2026 13:43: The Home Affairs minister, instead of condemning such decadent acts, tried to contradict the reverend friars who live next door. Having to resort to such vulgarity doesn't reflect well about the quality of this joint.

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Party policy: Distribution of wealth is new Labour CEO’s key priority

The distribution of wealth is a focus that the Labour Party's new CEO Ivan Falzon would like to focus on. "The Labour Party's foundation has always been, still is, and always will be people who...

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latest comment from RF, 27/07/2026 19:04: About time after 13 years of Labour ministers and their cronies feeding from the public finances trough accumulating and shamelessly flaunting unexplained wealth while more are becoming homeless and several are reaching poverty line.

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'There is no plan for this country': PN MP Rebekah Borg calls for overhaul of planning system

Malta's planning system is operating without a clear direction, PN MP and Shadow Minister for Planning Rebekah Borg said, adding that before the country can reform its planning laws, it must first...

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latest comment from Divi, 27/07/2026 20:31: a country leaderless and rudderless drifting up the creek

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The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack is killed in a confrontation with police

The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation on Sunday in a suburb of the city, authorities...

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PN accuses government of poor planning as power disruptions continue

The Nationalist Party has accused the government of failing to adequately plan investment in the electricity network and called on Energy Minister Miriam Dalli to shoulder...

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latest comment from Marcus, 27/07/2026 18:57: Ghax huma, meta kienu fil-gvern ghal 25 sena, kienu jippjanaw hafna u hafna. Insew dawn kemm il-darba kien jinqata' d-dawl fi zmienhom? U mhux biss fl-eqqel ta sajf, ta! Halluna!

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Around 10,000 concert-goers used public transport after Isle of MTV

Around 10,000 people attending this year's Isle of MTV concert travelled home using public transport or ferry services, according to Sustainable Mobility Minister Chris Bonett, who said the event...

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Andrea Pirlo out of contention for Italy job amid controversy over deal with Russian betting firm

Andrea Pirlo is out of contention for the Italy job amid political concerns over a sponsorship deal with a Russian betting firm. The flap over Pirlo reportedly has Paolo Maldini considering...

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Man suffers grievous injuries in traffic accident

A man suffered grievous injuries following an in Għajn Tuffieħa Road, Mġarr, on Sunday, the police said. The police immediately went to the scene, where it was established that a...

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David Casa calls for stronger policing to protect Valletta’s residents, heritage, places of worship

PN Head of Delegation in the European Parliament David Casa has written to the Commissioner of Police urging the Malta Police Force to strengthen enforcement in Valletta, particularly around churches...

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Business

GO’s TOKIS investment reaches new milestone with €5m commitment to Maltese productions

James B. Holdings reports transformational year with €188.7m in revenue

BCRS Malta maintains high collection rates as more beverage containers enter the market

13 new professionals join Malta's register of insolvency practitioners

APS Bank powers fourth edition of KampuSajf

SALV Group launches, bringing together five decades of Maltese family enterprise

Up to €200 top-up on new Mapfre MSV Life Unit Linked Personal Pension Plans through BOV

Lidl Malta takes action to ease energy demand with one-month lighting reduction across all stores

BOV and ASA launch the BOV Girls Water Polo Academy

MBR reports another year of strong growth, digital transformation and international recognition

Yorgen Fenech trial: Keith Schembri claims defence lawyers offered to bribe witness

Schembri alleges €400,000 bribe but witness refuses to answer questions

PN wants NAO report on 2023 power cuts crisis discussed in Parliamentary committee

Momentum files Freedom of Information request on July deaths and heat-related hospital admissions

Renewal process of around 160,000 identity cards successfully completed

TMID Editorial: Stronger laws and tougher penalties are essential

Euro 2020 winning coach Roberto Mancini returns to rescue Italy after third straight World Cup miss

Updated: PL Qormi councillor admits to threatening LESA, police officer; suspended from party

France evacuates 4,000 more people as heat threatens wildfire fight across southwestern Europe

Home Affairs Minister meets Italian counterpart in bilateral meeting

Works begin on new €75 million Organic Processing Plant

France hires former football great Zinedine Zidane as national team coach

‘Malta deserves better growth,’ Malta Chamber President tells Prime Minister, ministers

Prime Minister Abela says he has full faith in Energy Minister Miriam Dalli

Police seized only devices pointed out by Keith Schembri, Yorgen Fenech trial hears

‘He would point at the items and we would take those,’ officer says on Keith Schembri house search

Abela announces overhaul of farmer classification rules as Ta’ Qali market set for September start

Parliament rises for summer recess until 5 October

Two charged over Paceville altercation which left police officer injured

TMID Editorial: The real reason behind Malta’s spate of power cuts

Abela orders Enemalta to speed up works on distribution system after 'inexcusable' power cuts

Updated: St Julian's shooting suspect pleads not guilty to attempted murder of police officers

Updated (2): Father and five-year-old son die after boat collides with dinghy at Ġnejna Bay

Udated: PN accuses Abela of shifting blame over power cuts; PL replies

Police end public appeal after missing mother and son found

Police sergeant injured during assault in St Julian’s

‘Your dream, our project’… Until the lights go out

New PL CEO talks finances: Labour Party has more assets than liabilities

Father and five-year-old son died instantly in Ġnejna boating tragedy, autopsy finds

Ta’ Ġieżu friars insist concerns are genuine, urge authorities to tackle ‘illegalities and noise’

Party policy: Distribution of wealth is new Labour CEO’s key priority

'There is no plan for this country': PN MP Rebekah Borg calls for overhaul of planning system

The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack is killed in a confrontation with police

PN accuses government of poor planning as power disruptions continue

Around 10,000 concert-goers used public transport after Isle of MTV

Andrea Pirlo out of contention for Italy job amid controversy over deal with Russian betting firm

Man suffers grievous injuries in traffic accident

David Casa calls for stronger policing to protect Valletta’s residents, heritage, places of worship

‘I took a risk’: Rebekah Borg says targeting non-voters and floating voters paid off

'Discipline has nothing to do with gender' – Gunner Winonah Peplow on her AFM training

Norris ends wait for F1 win in Hungary as Antonelli stretches championship lead

TMIS Editorial: Alex Borg’s real challenge begins now

Momentum criticises minister's response to power cuts

Van slams into crowd at Berlin Pride festival, killing 1 and injuring 16, as police identify suspect