# Russia-Belarus War Games Send Shivers Through Valletta Cafés: “It’s 1979 All Over Again,” Say Veterans Valletta’s morning espresso ritual felt different today. Outside Café Cordina, pensioners who once huddled through the 1979 Soviet arms-ship crisis glanced at their phones and saw the same two flags—Russia’s white-blue-red and Belarus’s red-green—snaking across European newsfeeds. Moscow and…
Gorillaz’ 2026 World Tour Lands in Malta: Virtual Band, Real Impact on the Rock Sliema’s sunrise was still smearing peach across the cranes yesterday when Damon Albarn’s unmistakable drawl crackled through every wireless speaker on the promenade. “Malta, we’re coming,” the Gorillaz front-man declared in a 30-second video dropped at 7 a.m., confirming that the…
Valletta’s Parliament may sit 1,400 km from New York’s East River, but when the UN General Assembly votes this Thursday on a resolution that would recognise a Hamas-free Palestinian state, the ripple will be felt in every Maltese living-room, parish hall and band club that still remembers the 1948 refugee ships that steamed past our…
Finnish phone ban brings focus, and chatter, back to school – could Malta ever hang up? Valletta’s grand-parents still talk about the day the first Nokia brick landed in their children’s blazer pockets: suddenly, break-time hopscotch was replaced by snake hunts on grey screens. Fast-forward to 2024 and Finland – the very birthplace of that…
**Watch: Investigators plead for public’s help in Charlie Kirk killing** The grainy CCTV footage flickers across Maltese screens like a scene from Netflix, but this is no crime drama. Charlie Kirk – the 23-year-old British tourist whose smile lit up TikTok feeds from Paceville to Pembroke – is dead, and Malta’s summer of carefree parties…
**Ireland threatens Eurovision boycott if Israel takes part** *Malta’s Eurovision community watches nervously as political storm clouds gather over 2024 contest* By [Author Name] | Hot Malta Valletta – While Malta’s Eurovision fans are still buzzing from The Busker’s feel-good trip to Liverpool, a fresh political storm is brewing that could split the contest down…
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 evening television bulletins flickered with an image that looked alien yet chillingly familiar: a grainy FBI flyer bearing the face of a “person of interest” in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk. Within minutes, Maltese social media timelines were awash with side-by-side comparisons to video-game villains, memes of “The…
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…
**Row as EU Parliament Refuses Tribute to Charlie Kirk: What Malta’s Youth Make of the Free-Speech Storm** Valletta’s teenage debaters were still re-enacting last week’s historic abortion vote in the European Parliament when a fresh Brussels bombshell reached the island: a centre-right request to honour 30-year-old US conservative star Charlie Kirk with an official Strasbourg…
**Echoes Across the Med: How Jerusalem’s 800-Year-Old Organ Strikes a Chord in Malta** Valletta’s church bells had barely finished their Sunday cascade when the video landed in Maltese WhatsApp groups: a cedar-wood organ, silent since the Crusades, exhaling a chord that seemed to rise straight from the stone of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre….
