Sources: Times of Malta
The United Kingdom imposes a two-week quarantine for travellers or people coming from France and the Netherlands, as well as Monaco, Malta, Turks and Caicos, and Aruba. The measure will take effect on 04:00 BST on Saturday, August 15. 2020-08-13
Malta reports its first death from COVID-19, a 92-year-old woman with underlying health problems, as total cases rise to 299. 2020-04-8
Royal Norwegian Navy frigate HNoMS "Helge Ingstad" collides with a Maltese oil tanker in the Heltefjord while returning from NATO military exercises, prompting the evacuation of all 137 crew members. Seven sailors were injured in the collision. 2018-11-8
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat says that migrant rescue ship MV "Lifeline", stranded in international waters with over 200 rescued people on board for five days, has been granted permission to dock on the island and will do so later today. Muscat says that those on board will be split among Malta and seven other European Union nations. 2018-06-27
Malta imposes a freeze on Pilatus Bank. The bank's Iranian chairman Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad was arrested and charged in the United States earlier this week, accused of breaching United States sanctions against Iran. 2018-03-22
Malta arrests 10 people over the investigative journalist's murder on October 16. 2017-12-4
An Afriqiyah Airways flight originating from Sabha, Libya, is hijacked and forced to make an emergency landing in Malta. Hijackers threaten to blow up the aircraft with grenades, but the standoff ends peacefully with all hostages released and both hijackers surrendering. 2016-12-23
Voters in Malta go to the polls for a general election with polls showing the Labour Party set to win government. 2013-03-9
The government of Malta loses a budget vote, causing early elections to be called. 2012-12-10
Malta legalises divorce, becoming the last European Union country to do so. 2011-05-29