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Malta stops Libya-bound containers loaded with fake cigarettes
Maltese Customs seized 37 million counterfeit cigarettes from four containers that were heading to Libya in an operation spread over several weeks.The containers were stopped at the Freeport in Birżebbuġa and scanning equipment was…
€28.5 million worth drugs’ shipment from Syria to Libya stopped in Malta
The largest ever drug haul discovered in Freeport containers on Monday had a street value of €28.5 million, the Customs Department has revealed, according to Times of Malta. The four containers containing 10 to 11 tonnes of cannabis…
Migrant departures from Libya may increase over security vacuum, Maltese FM says
Migrant departures from Libya may increase due to a deterioration of the security situation, foreign affairs minister Carmelo Abela told a Parliamentary committee on Monday.Abela told the House Committee for Foreign and European…
Malta following closely Libya’s Tripoli clashes
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said Sunday Malta is “very closely” monitoring the constantly developing conflict in Libya.“There has been major conflict in Libya, with an air strike having taken place in Tripoli. We are very carefully…
Slovak MEP accuses Malta of selling Libyan figures 88.000 Schengen visas
Slovak MEP and chairman of the European Christian Political Movement (ECPM) Branislav Skripek made waves at the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on Thursday by revealing how the leftist…
Malta is adding to Libya’s instability by ignoring oil smuggling, report says
Maltese authorities are ignoring calls by their Italian counterparts to tackle Libyan oil smuggling inside Maltese contiguous waters, reported The Guardian.Ship-to-ship transfers of the stolen oil is taking place some 19km from…
3 men charged with the assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia
Maltese police has charged three men with the assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.The men, identified as, 55 years old, Vincent Muscat and brothers George and Alfred Degiorgio, aged 55 and 53, have all pleaded…
10 people arrested in Malta in connection of journalist’s assassination
The Maltese prime minister, Joseph Muscat said in a press conference on Tuesday, that 10 people were arrested in connection with the car bomb murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.Muscat told reporters that Maltese police…
Maltese fishing vessel seized in Libya’s Benghazi
A Maltese vessel has been held in Libya for more than a week, its owner told The Malta Independent.The Maltese flagged fishing vessel Salvatur VI, MFA0172VLT, owned by Salvatur VI Fishing Company Limited), with 1 Italian Captain…
Maltese Prime Minister, UN Secretary General discuss Libya and migration
Migration and the situation in Libya dominated a meeting between Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres Saturday.Muscat said Libya was an absolute priority to Malta because it was a neighbour…
Migrant Offshore Aid Station group suspends work off Libya to help Rohingya at Bay of Bengal
A Malta-based humanitarian group that has been rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean for three years is suspending operations after months of rising tensions with Italian and Libyan authorities.The Migrant Offshore Aid Station…