Good evening,
These are the main news reported by the leading Maltese news portals:
Parliamentary business is set to forge ahead as planned despite the Opposition’s call to suspend the agenda to debate the latest developments on coronavirus, or even cancelling all of this week’s sittings. Source: Times of Malta
Norman Vella vents his anger and frustration over what he claims is the gross mishandling of a case involving a Spanish student who was exiting Malta and tested positive for Covid-19. Source: Malta Today
The government announced the launching, for public consultation, of new draft regulations aimed at streamlining those persons acting as intermediaries in the process of negotiating and arranging transactions involving the acquiring or leasing of property. Source: Newsbook
Prime Minister Robert Abela said this afternoon that as from tomorrow at midnight all bars, cinemas, restaurants, clubs and gyms will be closed until further notice. Source: The Malta Independent
Tourism Minister Julia Farrugia Portelli has tested negative for the Coronavirus. Despite this she has still been asked to self-quarantine until Saturday. Source: TVM
Foreign News Roundup
More African nations impose travel restrictions over coronavirus
Global deaths and infections overtake those inside China
France’s coronavirus situation ‘deteriorating very fast’
Germany latest country to close borders
Spanish King renounces inheritance from father
Israel’s president to ask Netanyahu rival Benny Gantz to form government
EasyJet warns majority of fleet could be grounded as airlines enter critical week
Spain considering closing borders
Biden says he will pick woman to be his vice president
Italy ready to offer further measures to support businesses
Turkey reports new cases of coronavirus, bars and nightclubs ordered to close
Schools, bars to close from today in the Netherlands, concern on movement from Belgium
EU states record highest one-day death toll
Serbia introduces state of emergency, borders closed to foreigners
Danish government will pay 75% of threatened private sector salaries
U.S. to start coronavirus vaccine trial, a year to 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine
All air and sea passenger transport in Sicily to stop, freight transport to be guaranteed
The European Parliament has overwhelmingly backed proposals for Europe’s first sustainable tourism strategy, with Maltese MEP Daniel Attard saying the sector’s future must balance econom...
European Union governments and institutions are heading for a bitter battle over the bloc's 2028-2034 budget, as fresh defence and competitiveness demands vie for funds against more tra...
Morning Briefing
Labour's first proposals centre on families and first-time buyers Labour has launched its 2026 election campaign with a package of early proposals aimed at first-time...
Morning Briefing
Malta set for 30th May General Election: Maltese voters will go to the polls on May 30 after Prime Minister Robert Abela called a general election nine months before ...
The European Parliament has thrown its weight behind demands for a bigger long-term EU budget, approving its position for negotiations on the bloc’s next seven-year financial framework f...
Disinformation is no longer spreading only through fringe actors or political agitators, but through a digital system that rewards outrage, sensationalism and engagement above accuracy, ...
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) will end duty-free sales on board its flights, marking the close of a long-standing retail practice in commercial aviation as the carrier adjusts to...
OPEC and its allies will lose some of their power over the oil market when the United Arab Emirates leaves the group on May 1, but the rest of the producer alliance is likely to stick to...
“A company’s workplace culture praised by management, needs to be taken with caution. But when the recognition comes directly from employees, that carries greater weight,” says JONATHAN ...
EU lawmakers have approved new rules aimed at strengthening how failing banks are managed, extending protections to a wider range of institutions and depositors across the bloc.
The p...
Malta Public Transport will be operating extended late-night services on the final night of the Malta International Fireworks Festival, scheduled for Thursday 30th April, ensuring specta...
Malta Public Transport announces that it will be operating two additional evening trips between Mġarr and Nadur in Gozo on Saturday 18 April 2026 to facilitate passenger travel following...
Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained at a virtual standstill on Monday with just three crossings in the space of 12 hours, according to shipping data.
The oil prod...
Rights groups, including Amnesty International, say Iran carries out more executions per capita than any other country, and more in total than any nation except China, where reliable fig...
Thousands of Cuban security personnel have begun leaving Caracas after nearly two decades in Venezuela, as Washington ramps up efforts to dismantle the long standing alliance between the...
María Corina Machado is a prominent figure in Venezuela’s opposition. She has reported that one of her closest associates, Juan Pablo Guanipa, was abducted. This occurred mere hours afte...
Ukraine struck Russia’s oil infrastructure in the Black Sea port city of Tuapse for the third time in a month, local authorities said Tuesday.
The city, which declared an environmenta...
Russian forces have taken 1,700 square km (656 square miles) of territory in Ukraine this year and are advancing on its so-called fortress belt in Donbas, Moscow's top general said whil...
