World applauds as Malta crowns first Gozitan president: ‘Tiny island, huge heart’
Valletta’s 16th-century bastions were still glowing amber in the early-morning sun when the first congratulatory telegram arrived from Washington. By the time the cannons on the Upper Barrakka saluted Malta’s tenth president at noon, messages had poured in from Tokyo, Nairobi, Brasília and beyond—proof that the inauguration of a largely ceremonial head of state on…