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The Republic of Ireland, Malta, and Mexico confirm their first cases of monkeypox.
2022-05-28

Malta reports its first three cases of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil.
2021-04-21

Malta reports 72 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. It is the highest single increase in new cases in the country since the pandemic began.
2020-08-15

More than half of Malta's traffic police officers, including its chief, are arrested for overtime fraud and misuse of public resources.
2020-02-12

Container ship MV "Alexander Maersk" is allowed by Italian authorities to dock in Pozzallo, Sicily, after several days. There, it discharges over 100 rescued migrants. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte says German migrant rescue ship MV "Lifeline" will be permitted to dock in Malta in a deal that will see some of the migrants on board come to Italy.
2018-06-26

Malta refuses to accept 234 African immigrants from the Dutch ship "Lifeline".
2018-06-22

Twenty-three European Union countries sign a defence integration pact known as the Permanent Structured Cooperation. NATO members Denmark, Portugal and the United Kingdom (withdrawal from EU underway), and non-NATO members Malta and Ireland, opt out.
2017-11-13

The European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, John Dalli of Malta, resigns amid corruption charges that he denies.
2012-10-16

The Libyan Air Force launches airstrikes on crowds of protesters. Two civilian helicopters carrying French nationals and two Libyan Mirage jets land in Malta. The Libyan pilots claim that they received orders to bomb protesters, and request political asylum.
2011-02-21

Former President of the United Nations General Assembly and President of Malta Guido de Marco, who led his country into the European Union, dies suddenly after having apparently recovered from surgery, shocking the nation of Malta.
2010-08-12