**Claudia Cardinale, 87: Valetta’s Golden-Weekend queen who taught Malta how to dream in Technicolor** Valletta’s vintage cinemas fell silent yesterday as news broke that Claudia Cardinale—Italy’s eternal star who once flickered across Maltese screens in the swinging Sixties—had died in Rome aged 87. Within minutes, Facebook groups like “Malta Memories” and “Cinema Royal Valletta” were…
**Trump’s NATO Bombast Echoes Across the Grand Harbour: Could Malta Be Caught in the Crossfire?** Valletta’s cafés were still buzzing with Monday-morning espresso steam when Donald Trump’s latest foreign-policy grenade landed on Maltese phones: the former U.S. president wants NATO states to shoot down Russian jets that breach their airspace. In a country where every…
Trump’s UN Tirade Resonates in Valletta: “Your Countries Are Going to Hell” Sparks Debate in Malta’s Migration Hot-Spot By Hot Malta Staff VALLETTA – When Donald Trump strode to the UN podium this week and sneered that “your countries are going to hell” on peace and migration, the clip went viral in Malta before the…
Valletta wakes to shuttered classrooms and grounded holiday jets as Typhoon Ragasa tears through Hong Kong, severing the umbilical air corridor that links Malta’s winter sun-seekers to the fragrant dai pai dong markets of Kowloon. At 06:15 CET, Air Malta flight KM856—popular with Maltese students heading to Chinese-language summer programmes—was officially scratched from today’s departures…
Valletta’s Grand Harbour has seen its fair share of diplomatic drama—from 16th-century corsairs to Cold-War spy swaps—but this week the island found itself an unlikely footnote in a very 21st-century cloak-and-dagger tale. While delegates at the UN’s Small-Island-Developing-States (SIDS) conference in New York toasted with Kinnie cocktails flown in courtesy of Malta’s tourism board, U.S….
Trump’s Paracetamol Claim Sparks Concern Among Pregnant Women in Malta By Hot Malta Staff Valletta – It started with a single sentence on a Florida stage: “They even want you to take a paracetamol when you’re pregnant—nobody knows what that does to the baby.” Within minutes, the clip was racing through Maltese Facebook groups, WhatsApp…
**Malta Appoints Representative to Palestine: A Small Island’s Big Diplomatic Move** In a quiet but significant diplomatic step, Malta has officially appointed a resident representative to the State of Palestine — a move that places the tiny Mediterranean archipelago at the heart of one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. The decision, announced by Foreign…
# Denmark PM Labels Airport Drone Chaos a ‘Serious Attack’—What Malta Can Learn From Nordic Nightmare **COPENHAGEN/VALLETTA**—When Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stepped up to the podium on Wednesday and declared the overnight drone swarm that paralysed Copenhagen Airport “a serious attack on critical infrastructure”, Maltese ears should have pricked up. In Malta, where one…
From North Macedonia to Malta: Young musicians bring Mozart to Valletta By Hot Malta Staff Valletta’s Republic Street echoed with more than the usual café chatter on Saturday evening as a flash-mob of violinists, violists and cellists suddenly struck up Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik outside the National Library. Passers-by froze, phones flew into the air,…
**Milan Fashion Week to Mourn Armani, Welcome New Stars – What It Means for Malta’s Style Scene** Milan Fashion Week is set to be a bittersweet affair this season, as the fashion world prepares to bid farewell to one of its most enduring icons—Giorgio Armani—while ushering in a new generation of designers redefining luxury and…
Trump to meet Zelensky, expected to lay out dark vision in UN speech – what it means for Malta Valletta’s September sun may feel a world away from the geopolitical thundercloud gathering over New York this week, but when Donald Trump strides into the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday he will carry a message…
Valletta’s Grand Harbour usually greets cruise-ship horns and summer fireworks, but last Tuesday the harbour-front bar TVs were tuned to a different spectacle: ARTE Europe Weekly’s sobering report “Is Russia’s hybrid war entering a new phase?” Patrons who expected the usual Euro-drama found themselves watching analysts trace disinformation arcs from the Baltic to the Mediterranean….
