**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….
Maltese MEPs back Gaza ceasefire, sanctions on Hamas, urgent humanitarian aid By [Author Name], Hot Malta Valletta – All six Maltese members of the European Parliament have thrown their weight behind a cross-party resolution demanding an “immediate and sustained” ceasefire in Gaza, targeted EU sanctions on Hamas leaders, and a humanitarian corridor that would allow…
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…
