These are the main headlines reviewed by our editorial and research team for today.
Outgoing Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has denied accepting expensive gifts during his six-year term in office, saying such claims were “fabrications” meant to tarnish his reputation. Source: Times of Malta
Green Party Alternattiva Demokratika and Partit Demokratiku will be joining forces as one party sometime before the next General election, MaltaToday has been told. Source: Malta Today
Local service providers may have the data necessary to locate Keith Schembri’s missing phone, which would allow the police to find it, sources have told The Malta Independent on Sunday. Source: The Malta Independent
67-year-old Borg was run over by a vehicle when he was crossing the road at the entrance to the airport. TVM is informed that Mr Borg had just returned from a holiday in the UK with his wife. Borg had left his wife with their luggage at the airport while he went to collect his car from the Gudja car park, where the tragic accident occurred. Source: TVM
The search and rescue vessel Alan Kurdi has safely docked in Pozzallo, Sicily, with 32 Libyans aboard. Malta had refused to offer a port of safety. Among these 32 Libyans, there are 12 minors and one pregnant woman. According to the NGO sea-eye, who coordinates the Alan Kurdi, Malta refused to evacuate ten people in critical condition. Among these 10 people, six were children, and one was a pregnant woman. Source: Newsbook
