Putin Meets Kim: From Valletta Balconies to Vladivostok – What the Russia-North Korea Pact Means for Malta By a Hot Malta correspondent | Valletta On a balmy Mediterranean evening, while elderly men argued over ċisk and ħobż biż-żejt in Strait Street and tourists queued for gelato beneath the honey-coloured bastions, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un…
China’s Searing Summer Sends Ripples to Malta’s Shores by Maria Vella, Hot Malta correspondent Valletta – While the Grand Harbour’s limestone walls glow calmly under a 31 °C September breeze, meteorologists in Beijing have just confirmed what many suspected: China has endured its hottest summer since records began in 1951. Average temperatures from June to…
Valletta quietens at dusk, the honey-coloured bastions glowing above Grand Harbour while pushchairs and prayer-beads swing side-by-side on the Barakka lift. Yet even here, 1,800 kilometres from Gaza City, Israel’s military build-up feels close enough to touch. Over the past week, the Maltese have followed each new brigade, each tank column, with a particular intimacy…
Maltese NGOs Rally Solidarity as Rights Group Reports 20 Missing After Deadly Indonesia Protests By Lara Pace, Valletta As the last ferry from Gozo glided into Ċirkewwa on Monday evening, mobile phones across Malta lit up with grim headlines: at least 20 Indonesian students and labour activists have vanished following violent protests in Jakarta. The…
