Malta

The family of a murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has begun a legal battle with the island’s Prime Minister for a public inquiry into her death.

It is our duty to avoid a humanitarian catastrope, Spain’s new prime minister declared today, as he agreed to allow a stranded ship with 629 migrants on board a safe port, amid a diplomatic storm. Italy and Malta had turned the rescue ship away, despite warnings from aid agencies that it would run out of…

The son of the murdered investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed in a car bombing in Malta, has attacked the island as a “mafia state” run by what he called “crooks”. His 53 year old mother, who died yesterday, was known for her blog accusing politicians of high-level corruption and led the Panama…

With hundreds of migrants being rescued daily from overloaded boats in the Mediterranean, the EU is struggling to agree on an adequate response to the new arrivals.

Malta may soon offer rich foreign investors the chance to buy a life in the European Union. But the Mediterranean island nation is not alone in selling citizenship for cash.

Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat tells Channel 4 News Europe must come together to deal with the “humanitarian crisis” of the recent migrant boat wrecks in which hundreds have died.

A Libyan military vessel shot at a boat of migrants fleeing from north Africa to Italy before it capsized, witnesses tell Channel 4 News.

The Italian navy says 34 bodies have been recovered and 206 people rescued after a vessel smuggling immigrants from North Africa overturned in the Channel of Sicily.

Nearly 110,000 sign a petition protesting against energy giant npower’s alleged tax avoidance – but the company remains adamant it has no UK tax obligations.

Severe thunderstorms hit Malta on Monday leaving one man dead and dropping a month’s worth of rain on the Mediterranean island in two hours.