Malta

The European Commission set out a 20-point action plan on Monday designed to address surging migration in the central Mediterranean, ahead of an emergency meeting of interior ministers, Reuters...

Four aid groups accused Malta, on Wednesday, of breaking international law by ordering a merchant ship to take rescued migrants to Egypt, when Malta itself was much closer and...

The widow of Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya, has appealed a decision by a Maltese court which ordered a bank to return to the Libyan state 95...

Fifteen European countries, on Friday, urged Israel to stop plans for more illegal settlements in the West Bank, according to an official statement, Anadolu News Agency reports. "We are...

Maltese authorities have reportedly turned back an Air Algerie flight that was planning to repatriate Western Saharan nationals and members of the Algerian-backed independence movement, the Polisario Front. According...

Saudi Arabia's hunt for its former top intelligence official, Saad Al-Jabri, has arrived in the island of Malta, opening a new front in the international feud between the exiled...

The number of first-time asylum seekers to the European Union has more than doubled over the spring months, Reuters said a report released today by the bloc's statistics office revealed. Nearly...

More than 1,100 illegal migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast and returned to Libya over the past week, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said yesterday, Xinhua  News Agency reports....

As many as ten Iranian navy commando fighters have received military training in Malta, Israel's Channel 12 has claimed. According to the Israeli channel, the ten Iranian divers were trained a...

Europe is testing a "sound cannon" – which gives off a high-pitched noise as loud as a jet engine – to deter people arriving and seeking refuge, according to...

European Union (EU) member states' pushback of asylum seekers and refugees seeking to enter Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the death of over 2,000, according to a report by...

Turkey's 21st-century geopolitical strategy is called the Blue Homeland. It is the brainchild of retired Rear Admiral Cem Gurdeniz, who talked to MEMO about Turkey's eastern Mediterranean policy, which...

The Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Siala announced on Friday that his country will communicate with Greece and Malta to negotiate the demarcation of maritime borders, in a way that...

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on three individuals and a Malta-based company, accusing them of acting as a network of smugglers and contributing to instability in Libya,...

Turkey's Minister of Defence hosted a meeting in Ankara yesterday where he discussed regional issues with Libya's Interior Minister and Malta's Minister of National Security and the Interior. Details...

Fake Libyan dinars were printed in Russia to fund renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces and the war in Tripoli

The Head of the Libyan Government's Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj and the Prime Minister of Malta Robert Abela on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding in the field of...

Two UN agencies on Thursday called on Malta and other European countries to speed up efforts to bring to dry land some 160 rescued refugees and migrants from Libya,...

Malta plans to keep 57 rescued migrants aboard a private ship anchored just outside territorial waters until the European Union finds a way to rehouse them, Prime Minister Robert...

Malta's judiciary accused a local arms dealer – contracted by an Emirati company – of violating the sanctions imposed on Libya. Times of Malta newspaper reported on Saturday that arms...

A group of 112 North African migrants was rescued from a sinking dinghy and landed in Malta early on Sunday, supervised by troops in special protective clothing against possible...

Greece, with Turkish cooperation, intends to start deporting 200 refugees every week, the Greek immigration minister announced yesterday. Notis Mitarachi told local media that his country would start establishing...

Malta's armed forces have started cooperating with Libya's coastguard to turn back migrant boats heading into Malta's search and rescue zone, a local newspaper and Reuters reported on Sunday,...

More than 1,000 migrants and refugees have died in the Mediterranean Sea this year, the sixth year in a row that this "bleak milestone" has been reached, the United...

The Maltese prime minister announced Friday that none of the migrants aboard a rescue ship will remain in the country, Anadolu Agency reports. Joseph Muscat said the 356 people on Ocean...

A total of 45,505 irregular migrants and refugees reached Europe by sea since the beginning of 2019, the UN migration agency said Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. Of that figure, 859 died...