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Gay Rights Activists Storm Rebecca Buttigieg Speech: Malta’s LGBTQ+ Youth Demand Action Beyond Rainbow Politics
ByHot Malta 11 September 2025

**Watch: Gay Rights Activists Disrupt Rebecca Buttigieg Speech in Valletta** A routine political address turned into an unexpected flashpoint for LGBTQ+ rights yesterday evening, as gay rights activists interrupted Parliamentary Secretary Rebecca Buttigieg’s speech at the Valletta Cultural Hub. The disruption, which lasted approximately three minutes, has ignited fresh debate about Malta’s progress on queer…

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Birkirkara Family Tragedy: Son’s Medication Stoppage Leads to Violent Assault on Father, Sparking Malta Mental Health Crisis Debate
ByHot Malta 11 September 2025

**Family Tragedy in Birkirkara Sparks Mental Health Debate After Son Accused of Assaulting Father** A 34-year-old Birkirkara man has been charged with grievously injuring his 67-year-old father in what court officials described as a “violent outburst” that left the elderly man hospitalized with multiple fractures. The incident, which occurred in the family’s traditional Maltese townhouse…

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Valletta Court Fines 15 Homeless People in 42-Minute Blitz, Sparks National Soul-Searching
ByHot Malta 11 September 2025

Valletta’s courthouse felt more like a packed bus terminus yesterday morning when 15 homeless men and women—some clutching plastic bags of belongings, others barefoot—were herded before Magistrate Joseph Mifsud in a single, chaotic sitting that lasted just 42 minutes. All faced the same charge: “voluntary homelessness” under a dusty 2017 city-bylaw that criminalises sleeping rough…

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Malta Perspective: New York’s 9/11 Commemoration Highlights America’s Deepening Divisions
ByHot Malta 11 September 2025

**New York marks 9/11 attacks against divided backdrop** As New Yorkers gathered at Ground Zero yesterday to mark 23 years since the 9/11 attacks, the ceremony unfolded against America’s increasingly fractured political landscape – a stark contrast to the unity that briefly bound the nation together in the aftermath of that September morning. From our…

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Malta Split as EU Parliament Blocks Tribute to US Conservative Star Charlie Kirk
ByHot Malta 11 September 2025

**Row as EU Parliament Refuses Tribute to Charlie Kirk: What Malta’s Youth Make of the Free-Speech Storm** Valletta’s teenage debaters were still re-enacting last week’s historic abortion vote in the European Parliament when a fresh Brussels bombshell reached the island: a centre-right request to honour 30-year-old US conservative star Charlie Kirk with an official Strasbourg…

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Community | Culture

Valletta’s Consciousness Café: How Anton Sammut Is Rewiring the Maltese Soul
ByHot Malta 11 September 2025

**Awakened Realities: Anton Sammut and the Soul of Consciousness** In a quiet corner of Valletta, where the limestone walls echo centuries of whispered prayers and revolution, Anton Sammut sits cross-legged on a woven ġbejna mat, eyes closed, breathing in the scent of sea salt and incense. Around him, a small group of Maltese seekers—teachers, artists,…

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Sciortino Brothers’ Guilty Plea Shakes Malta: When Family Honor Meets Justice
ByHot Malta 11 September 2025

**Sciortino Brothers Plead Guilty to Threatening Magistrate and Police Officers in Shocked Malta** In a case that has sent ripples through Malta’s tight-knit community, the Sciortino brothers this week pleaded guilty to threatening a magistrate and several police officers, bringing to a dramatic close a saga that has dominated local conversations from Valletta’s cafés to…

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Malta’s Quiet Rainbow Revolution: 500 Civil Servants Trained in LGBTIQ+ Equality in Just One Year
ByHot Malta 11 September 2025

500 PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS RECEIVED LGBTIQ+ EQUALITY TRAINING LAST YEAR: A QUIET REVOLUTION IN MALTA’S GOVERNMENT OFFICES By Hot Malta Newsroom Valletta – While tourists were photographing the Triton Fountain and debating which pastizzeria does the best ricotta squares, something less Instagrammable but far more transformative was happening inside Malta’s public administration: 500 civil servants—from…

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Malta Pulls Plug on Gas Delivery Subsidy Early, Ending 70-Year Village Ritual
ByHot Malta 11 September 2025

Gas cylinders clanged one last time on Friday as Malta’s €2.3 million annual state subsidy for door-to-door LPG delivery was axed five years early, ending a 70-year ritual that turned kerbside “buttuna” drops into a national soundtrack. From today, households must fetch their own 12 kg cylinders from authorised points or pay the full €26.50…

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From Jerusalem to Valletta: 800-Year-Old Organ Revival Sparks Maltese Wave of Musical Heritage Pride
ByHot Malta 11 September 2025

**Echoes Across the Med: How Jerusalem’s 800-Year-Old Organ Strikes a Chord in Malta** Valletta’s church bells had barely finished their Sunday cascade when the video landed in Maltese WhatsApp groups: a cedar-wood organ, silent since the Crusades, exhaling a chord that seemed to rise straight from the stone of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre….

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Maltese MEPs vote Gaza ceasefire: insulin ships ready to sail from Grand Harbour
ByHot Malta 11 September 2025

Maltese MEPs back Gaza ceasefire, sanctions on Hamas, urgent humanitarian aid By [Author Name], Hot Malta Valletta – All six Maltese members of the European Parliament have thrown their weight behind a cross-party resolution demanding an “immediate and sustained” ceasefire in Gaza, targeted EU sanctions on Hamas leaders, and a humanitarian corridor that would allow…

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Malta LGBTQ+ activists confront Labour MP Rebecca Buttigieg after protester detained
ByHot Malta 11 September 2025

Gay rights activists disrupt Rebecca Buttigieg speech after member detained ===================================================================== Valletta – A routine parliamentary outreach event turned confrontational on Wednesday evening when activists from Malta’s LGBTQ+ community interrupted a public address by Labour MP Rebecca Buttigieg, protesting the brief detention of a fellow campaigner outside the University of Malta conference hall. The activist,…

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