Sources: Times of Malta
A Gaza-bound activist humanitarian aid ship, part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, catches fire and issues an SOS after what its organizers alleged was an Israeli drone attack off the coast of Malta in international waters. 2025-05-2
Malta reports a record for the second consecutive day of 1,337 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 49,625. 2021-12-29
Malta abandons a plan to close its border to unvaccinated travellers. Instead, they impose a mandatory quarantine. The new policy follows criticism from the European Commission that they are discriminatory. 2021-07-13
Malta's Navy rescues 112 migrants from a sinking boat in the Mediterranean Sea. 2020-03-15
More than 100 migrants hijack a merchant vessel that rescued them off Libya's coast, ordering the crew to head towards Malta. Malta's military said the ship would not be allowed into its waters. 2019-03-27
A Maltese port manager is killed at a fish market in Puntland by Al-Shabaab militants disguised as fishermen. 2019-02-4
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
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
Five hundred people drowned off the coast of Malta last week after people traffickers deliberately sank their ship. 2014-09-15
Malta buries former president Guido de Marco in a state funeral. 2010-08-16