Today's front pages - August 14, 2025
The top stories in Malta's newspapers on Thursday
The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Thursday.
Today's front pages all lead with Wednesday's court case regarding Karmenu (Carmelo) Ciantar, known as Id-Durga, who allegedly shot dead Dennis Mifsud, 51, and Anthony Agius, 57, in a field near Rabat, on July 29. He is pleading not guilty.
Times of Malta leads with a court report of how the pensioner accused of killing two men in an apparent family feud angrily told the mother of one of them, “I killed your rabbits”, when she called him hours after the shootings.
The Malta Independent, In-Nazzjon, and l-orrizont all lead with similar headlines.
The newspaper also reports how a convoy of Bolt and Wolt drivers followed the coffin of a courier who was killed last Sunday in a hit-and-run crash.
In a seperate story, The Malta Independent reports how Malta is among a list of countries urging Israel to lift restrictions on NGOs.
l-orrizont reports how an Italian man drowned in Comino on Wednesday afternoon.
In-Nazzjoni also reports how the two candidates contesting to take on the role as the Nationalist Party leader can now hand in their official nominations.