“Saint Gorg Preca pray for us.” With these words, said in Maltese, Pope Benedict XVI greeted the over 5,000 Maltese pilgrims who visited the Eternal City...

Several of the Eritreans controversially repatriated by Malta five years ago remain in detention where they have been systematically tortured and held incommunicado, Amnesty International said in its recent 2007 annual report “...

Maltese fishermen are terrified when they take to the open seas and rarely report sightings of migrant boats, according to Ghaqda Kooperativa tas-Sajd president Carmelo Bugeja....

A representative of the Eritrean Liberation Front has told The Malta Independent on Sunday that the boatload of 53 migrants lost at sea 14 days ago and feared dead, are alive and in detention in Libya....

GRTU and the government yesterday continued their battle over the proposed IT tender.....

Speaking at a press conference at the Golden Tulip Vivaldi Hotel, Dr Harry Vassallo, Chairperson of Alternattiva Demokratika – The Green Party said that his party will be applying for a television broadcasting licence shortly. ...

Maltese prosecutors charged a Frenchman yesterday with illegally exporting a military aircraft to Ivory Coast after flying it to Malta in 2004. Jean Jacques Fuentes was extradited from France on Friday and taken to court yesterday....

In 1976, two years after Secretary of State Henry Kissinger threatened then-Italian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro about forming a coalition with the Communists, right-wing hardliner Senator ‘Scoop’ Jackson, on a trip to ...

Maltastar.com reported yesterday that Tourism Minister Francis Zammit Dimech was livid when Malta Tourism Authority’s CEO David Mifsud revealed the minister’s target to boost tourist arrivals in 2007 by seven per cent, or a total of 78,000 tourists. ...

Petrol station owners who are members of the GRTU are on the warpath and are threatening action in support of their claim....