# Fed Slashes Rates as Global Ripples Reach Maltese Shores: What the 2025 Cut Means for Malta’s Wallet, Work & Weekends Valletta – While Washington’s marble corridors echoed with talk of “labour-market rebalancing” on Wednesday night, the first U.S. Federal Reserve rate cut of 2025 was already pinging off the limestone walls of Strait Street….
# From Valletta to Copenhagen: How Denmark’s Missile Shopping Spree Hits Close to Home in Malta **Valletta** – When Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen announced this week that Copenhagen will splash out on “long-range precision weapons” to counter a resurgent Russia, the news ping-paced across NATO’s southernmost frontier faster than a Knights-period cannonball. Malta,…
A Malta-backed hospital in Ghana is quietly changing thousands of lives ===================================================================== At 05:30 in Accra the equatorial sun is already punching through the haze, but the queue outside the “Malta House of Mercy” stretches calmly around the block. Mothers balance toddlers on hips, elderly men fan themselves with voter-ID cards, and a teenage girl…
# Cinema: All eyes turn to Asia’s biggest film festival – and Valletta is watching too While the last rays of a Maltese summer still glint off the limestone balconies of Strait Street, cinephiles from Seoul to Busan are rolling out a red carpet that stretches 9,000 kilometres east. The 28th Busan International Film Festival…
**Metsola Brings Maltese Sun to Kyiv: How a Small Island’s Top EU Official Is Re-Wiring Europe’s East** Valletta’s Roberta Metsola strode into Kyiv’s snow-dusted Maidan Square this week carrying more than the EU flag. Tucked in her red diplomatic folder was a little packet of ħobż biż-żejt, a gift from her mother, and a silver…
**Royal Fanfare, Maltese Ears: What Trump’s Gold-Leaf London Welcome Means for the Rock in the Middle** By the time the Valletta bus depot clock struck 9 a.m., café TVs normally tuned to ONE’s soap replays had flicked to BBC World. Pensioners nursing ħobż biż-żejt watched a scarlet-clad Welsh Guards band strike up “Hail to the…
**Maltese Collectors Hold Breath After €600,000 Paris Gold Heist Shakes Global Heritage Scene** Valletta’s narrow limestone streets may feel worlds away from the grand boulevards of Paris, but news that three masked thieves smashed display cases at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs on Monday and escaped with 60 kilos of priceless gold artefacts has sent…
Malta’s Quiet Role in a Northern Ireland Rape Extradition Drama By Hot Malta Staff Valletta – When 34-year-old Belfast-born construction worker Darren McKenna was arrested last Tuesday outside a Paceville gym, few of the sunburnt revellers around him realised that Malta had just become the latest stage in a five-year trans-national manhunt. McKenna, wanted by…
**Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Quits, Says Independence ‘Gone’: What It Means for Malta’s Iconic Ice-Cream Fans** In a move that’s sent ripples through the global ice-cream community—and yes, that includes Malta’s growing legion of Cherry Garcia devotees—Ben Cohen, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, has officially stepped down from the company’s board. His reason? A…
**Poison on the Mediterranean Wind: Navalny’s Widow Points to Kremlin as Malta’s Russian Community Reels** Valletta’s Grand Harbour fell silent for a heartbeat on Monday afternoon when Yulia Navalnaya’s voice crackled through car radios and café loud-speakers: “They killed my husband with poison, then they hid his body from us.” Within minutes, Maltese commuters pulled…
Robert Redford: A tribute to Hollywood’s golden boy with a Midas touch By Hot Malta Staff Valletta’s open-air cinema season kicked off last Friday with a 35-mm print of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” projected against the bastion walls of St. Elmo. As the final frame dissolved into the Mediterranean night, the crowd—Maltese cinephiles,…
**Madeleine McCann Suspect Walks Free: How a German Rapist’s Release Reopens Old Wounds in Malta** By [Author Name] | Hot Malta VALLETTA – When Christian Brückner stepped out of a German prison on Tuesday, his shadow stretched across the Mediterranean and settled on Malta’s own unresolved mysteries. The 47-year-old convicted rapist—named the prime suspect in…
