financing watchdog( FATF), Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Wednesday, in a move which could

absolute majority, ” Abela told the Maltese state broadcaster.... The conflict simply explained

Voters in Malta will elect a new Parliament in a few weeks in balloting that will also decide the island nation’s next government.... He said he will advise the Maltese president to dissolve Parliament to clear the way for the election. The Labour Party has been in power since 2013, after winning back-to-back elections.... Last August, an indictment was issued against Fenech on charges of complicity in the journalist's murder....

He became prime minister in January 2020, succeeding Joseph Muscat who resigned after the arrest of businessman Yorgen Fenech, accused of complicity in the murder of anti-corruption blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017.... Both Muscat and Schembri have denied having had prior knowledge of the murder.... Schembri was subsequently charged with money laundering and corruption....

Malta's government must" bear responsibility" for the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, an independent inquiry has found. The probe said that Maltese authorities had created a" culture of impunity" that led to her killing. Caruana Galizia died in a car bombing in October 2017 as she was allegedly investigating corruption in a business linked to a wealthy businessman, Yorgen Fenech. Fenech — who had close ties to the government — is the alleged mastermind behind the assassination and h

PARIS: A global dirty money watchdog said it had added European Union member Malta to its" grey list" of countries under increased monitoring, and kept Pakistan on the list despite progress on tackling terrorism financing. The Financial Action Task Force( FATF) also said that Haiti, the Philippines and South Sudan were added to its grey list, and that Ghana had been removed after the country had made progress. The Maltese government had already flagged its inclusion on the list, which indicates

Yet Biden said last Sunday at a news conference in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi that those alliances are not about a “ cold war ” with China.“ It’s not about containing China, ” he said.... 6 attack unfold at the US Capitol Trump denies pushing for Biden impeachment inquiry in secret meetings Trump touts Kristen Welker ‘Meet the Press’ interview amid boycott-latest news Yet the relationship is full of competing pressures.... The Biden administration shot down what was described as a Chinese

Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech leaves court after the 2017 bomb attack.... And since Daphne’s death, journalists investigating crime and corruption in Slovakia, Greece and the Netherlands have been murdered.... Flowers laid at the spot where Peter de Vries, a journalist lauded for fearless reporting on the Dutch underworld, was shot and killed Amsterdam on July 6 this yearPeter Dejong/ AP In all of these cases, no one has yet been brought to justice....