Sources: Times of Malta
Myriam Spiteri Debono is unanimously elected by the Maltese Parliament as the next President of Malta. 2024-03-27
Malta legalizes the personal use and limited cultivation of cannabis, becoming the first country in the European Union to do so. 2021-12-15
Malta reports their first case of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa. 2021-02-16
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
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
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
A bill allowing same-sex marriage in Malta gets approved by Parliament. 2017-07-12
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
Malta elected a new President of the Republic of Malta Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, the second female President after 27 years. The event carried out in Luqa, Siggiewi, Qormi, Valletta, Floriana, Malta and Attard. 2014-04-3
A ship carrying 300 African migrants headed for Malta runs aground near Lampedusa in Italy with many on board having to be rescued from the sea. 2011-05-8