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Future of Joseph Muscat in doubt amid crisis sparked by Daphne Caruana Galizia caseLawmakers from Malta’s ruling Labour party met on Sunday to decide the future of the prime minister, Joseph Muscat, amid a crisis sparked by the investigation into murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.Pressure grew both within and outside the party for him to quit after the probe into the 2017 car-bomb killing...

Yorgen Fenech entered not guilty plea to charges relating to killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia A businessman has been charged with the murder of Malta’s best known investigative journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia.Local tycoon Yorgen Fenech, the 38-year-old head of a gambling and property empire, was arraigned on Saturday evening, and charged with participating in a criminal organisation, complicity in causing an explosion, and complicity...

Joseph Muscat has come under increasing pressure over handling of case of Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed in 2017Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat, has told associates he plans to resign imminently, the Times of Malta has reported.His decision was brought on by the political and legal crisis arising from the investigation into the 2017 murder of the prominent anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia,...

Maltese police say they conducted ‘intensive investigation’ into claim Keith Schembri was behind killingPolice investigating the murder of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia have released the prime minister’s closest aide following an “intensive investigation” into allegations that he was the mastermind behind the killing.Keith Schembri was arrested on Tuesday, just after resigning as head of the office of prime minister Joseph Muscat, following allegations...

Two members of government linked to man arrested over Daphne Caruana Galizia killingA senior European monitor is calling for Malta’s prime minister to distance himself from the investigation into the killing of the prominent investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia due to a potential conflict of interest.Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat, has the power to grant immunity from prosecution to a key witness who may...

Suspect freed as deadline for charges over death of Daphne Caruana Galizia approachedYorgen Fenech, a prominent businessman arrested on Wednesday in connection with investigations into the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, has been released on bail, police sources said.He will be under round-the-clock police surveillance as investigations continue. Continue reading...

Maltese government may offer pardon if suspect can reveal mastermind behind killingA man suspected of being the middleman in the murder of Malta’s most prominent anti-corruption journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, has been arrested, a police source has told Reuters.The man is believed to have linked the person suspected of commissioning the murder of Caruana Galizia to the men accused of carrying out the killing,...

Huge cache thought to have come from Russia in order to bankroll general’s war effortThe Maltese government has seized a massive shipment of unofficial Libyan banknotes believed to have been destined for Khalifa Haftar, the military commander leading an offensive to dislodge the UN-backed government in Tripoli.Security services in Malta confirmed two 2,000-cubic-foot (56-cubic-metre) containers packed full of the recently introduced currency were discovered...

Daphne Caruana Galizia, who wrote a popular anti-corruption blog, was killed by a car bomb outside her homeFollowing international pressure, the government of Malta has said it will launch an independent public inquiry into the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.Caruana Galizia, who wrote a popular anti-corruption blog, was killed by a car bomb outside her home on the island on 16 October...