**Watch: Madrid Bar Explosion Injures 25 – What It Means for Maltese Travellers and Expats** A powerful gas explosion that tore through a popular Madrid bar on Friday evening has left 25 people injured, five of them critically—including a 26-year-old Maltese man who had been living in the Spanish capital for the past two years….
KATHMANDU – When 58-year-old school-teacher-turned-politician Onsari Gharti Magar was sworn in on Monday as Nepal’s first female Prime Minister, the Himalayan republic exhaled. After weeks of violent street protests that left 17 dead and hundreds injured, the capital’s usually grid-locked ring road fell quiet; shopkeepers rolled up their shutters and, in a symbolic break from…
1,000 Police Lock Down London As Far-Right And Anti-Racist Crowds Clash—What It Means For Maltese Living In The Capital By Hot Malta Correspondent Valletta time: 16:45. While Sliema ferries bob gently in the afternoon sun, WhatsApp groups linking Maltese students in Camden and nurses in Hammersmith are pinging non-stop: “Avoid the Strand, tubes closed.” “Stay…
**From American Campus to Maltese Screens: How the Charlie Kirk Murder Suspect News is Rocking Malta’s Expat Bubble** Valletta’s wine bars were buzzing louder than usual last night, but the topic wasn’t the usual debate on whether pastizzi are better at Crystal Palace or Is-Serkin. Instead, clusters of English-speaking students from MCAST and American University…
Valletta, Malta – When American conservative activist Charlie Kirk took to his podcast last night claiming that “the suspect in the Charlie Kirk murder case is now in custody” and that “President Trump personally told me,” phones began buzzing across the Maltese archipelago. At first glance, the story feels oceans away from our limestone balconies…
FBI Releases Picture of ‘Person of Interest’ in Charlie Kirk Killing: How a Far-Away Murder is Reverberating in Malta’s Living Rooms VALLETTA – When 29-year-old Charlie Kirk’s face flashed across TVM’s Tuesday night bulletin, Maltese viewers did a double-take. The American conservative activist wasn’t on air to debate EU migration policy—he was the victim of…
Valletta’s cafés were still buzzing with yesterday’s Eurovision semifinal when phones lit up with a push-alert that felt oceans away: US police have video footage of the suspect who gunned down 31-year-old Charlie Kirk outside a Turning Point USA rally in Detroit, and the murder weapon has been recovered. Yet in a country where 92…
**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…
Peter Mandelson Sacked as UK Ambassador to US Over Epstein Links: Why Malta Should Care Valletta woke up to diplomatic tremors this morning as news broke that Lord Peter Mandelson has been abruptly recalled from Washington, the first time a British ambassador has been dismissed mid-post since the Suez Crisis. The official line from Whitehall…
**Malta’s Animal Lovers Rally as Japanese Donors Distance Themselves from ‘Cat Killer’** Valletta – When news broke last week that a 30-year-old Japanese tourist had been caught on CCTV drowning a stray cat inside a plastic bag at St Julian’s Spinola Bay, the clip went viral across both islands within hours. But while Magistrate Monica…
**Tragedy Across the Waves: Malta Reacts to the Killing of Charlie Kirk** Valletta’s cafés were still buzzing with Monday-morning espresso steam when push-notifications lit up phones across the archipelago: Charlie Kirk, the 25-year-old British-Maltese influencer and part-time Sliema resident, had been found shot dead outside a Manchester recording studio shortly after midnight. Within minutes #CharlieKirk…
**The Għonnella crosses the sea to Japan: Malta’s iconic veil finds new life in Tokyo** In a quiet corner of Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya district, something extraordinary is happening. Behind the windows of a minimalist boutique, mannequins wear the unmistakable silhouette of Malta’s traditional għonnella – but reimagined for Japanese fashion sensibilities. This isn’t cultural appropriation;…
