Charlie Kirk, the 30-year-old American conservative firebrand who helped turn college campuses into culture-war battlegrounds, was shot and killed Monday night while speaking at the University of Arizona. The news reached Malta just after dawn, ricocheting through Valletta cafés, university corridors and parish squares with the same stunned disbelief that greeted the 2021 Capitol riot….
**Valletta Reacts After US Conservative Star Charlie Kirk Shot on Arizona Campus** Valletta’s Republic Street cafés were still buzzing with Monday-morning espresso chatter when the push notification landed: Charlie Kirk, the 30-year-old American right-wing firebrand who headlined a Maltese youth conference only eight months ago, had been shot and wounded while touring Arizona State University….
Valletta cafés fell unusually quiet yesterday evening as televisions tuned to Al Jazeera showed Israeli jets wheeling above Doha’s glittering skyline. Patrons who had come for rabbit stew (fenkata) and mid-week Premier League replays instead watched the first flashes of what Israel terms “precision interdiction” and Qatar labels “a stab to the heart of diplomacy”….
Poland Shoots Down Russian Drones: What a NATO Skirmish Means for Malta’s Christmas Markets and Winter Fuel Bills Żabbar grandmother Maria Pace was ladling rabbit stew for her grandchildren when her phone pinged with a Reuters alert: “Poland scrambles F-16s after Russian drones enter airspace.” She looked up, half expecting to see contrails over the…
VALLETTA – When Polish radar screens flashed “intruder” at 04:47 on Sunday, the ripple was felt 1,600 km south in a Sliema flat where 23-year-old Polish ER nurse Zofia Kowalska was video-calling her mother in Kraków. “Mum said the windows shook,” Zofia told Hot Malta minutes after her shift at Mater Dei. “She asked if…
# Nepal protesters set parliament ablaze as PM quits: What it means for Malta’s Nepalese community Kathmandu’s skies turned orange on Monday night as furious demonstrators breached the gates of parliament, hurling petrol bombs at the 19th-century Singha Durbar complex and torching the main assembly hall. By dawn, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal – the…
**Tragedy Across the Atlantic: Malta’s Mexican Community Mourns as Train-Bus Crash Claims 10 Lives** The Mediterranean morning was just beginning to warm when WhatsApp messages started pinging across Malta’s tight-knit Mexican community. By 7am, the group chat that usually buzzed with plans for Sunday salsa nights at Havana Club and where to find proper corn…
Israel’s vow to hit Gaza City “with great force” has jolted even this sun-drenched island 1,800 kilometres away. On Tuesday morning, as café regulars in Valletta sipped their ħobż-bi-żejt and argued about last night’s football, Telegram pings carried images of flattened apartment blocks and frantic rescuers. By evening, the chatter on Facebook groups like “Maltese…
Malta’s holidaymakers woke up to chaos this morning after Heathrow’s Terminal 5 was evacuated following reports of “possible hazardous materials” in the check-in area. For hundreds of Maltese passengers, the alert came at the worst possible time: the start of the first full week of school holidays and the eve of the popular Maltese festa…
Nepal’s Bloodshed Echoes in Valletta: How a Himalayan Massacre Strikes Home in Malta’s Fight for Digital Freedoms Valletta’s evening air was thick with chatter outside Café Cordina last night, but the espresso cups paused mid-sip when the news flashed across phone screens: Nepalese police had opened fire on demonstrators, killing at least 17 people who…
Valletta’s morning cafés were buzzing louder than usual on Thursday as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s dramatic pledge to “stop the genocide in Gaza” collided head-on with Israel’s furious recall of its ambassador from Madrid. For Maltese ears, the row sounds less like distant thunder and more like a family argument echoing across the Mediterranean…
Maltese Commuters, Students and Holidaymakers Caught in London Tube Chaos By Sarah Vella, Hot Malta Correspondent When the Piccadilly Line ground to a halt at 05:30 on Tuesday morning, the ripple was felt 2,000 kilometres away—right here in Malta. More than 3.5 million daily journeys on the London Underground were cancelled or delayed after 10,000…
