War

High Victorian fashion. Photo by Giuseppe Lorenzo Formosa

Victorian fashionistas in Malta

All the sitters trudged to the studios in their Sunday bests and it shows

August 2, 2022| Giovanni Bonello|1
The logo of Russia's energy giant Gazprom is pictured at one of its petrol stations in Moscow on July 11, 2022. Photo: AFP

Russia suspends gas supplies after deadly prison strike

Russian energy giant Gazprom Saturday suspended gas supplies to Latvia, a day after a jail holding Ukrainian prisoners of war was bombed leaving scores dead. "Today, Gazprom suspended its gas supplies to Latvia... due to violations of the conditions"...

July 30, 2022| AFP |23
Family members mourn Vasyl Sushchuk, an Azov regiment serviceman killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, during his funeral. Photo: AFP

Ukraine condemns Russian call to 'hang' Azov fighters

Ukrainian officials on Saturday denounced a call by Russia's embassy in Britain for fighters from the Azov regiment to face a "humiliating" execution. The Russian tweet came as Moscow and Kyiv traded blame over a strike on a jail holding Ukrainian...

July 30, 2022| AFP |34
Handout picture released by Russian Investigative Committee showing what is said is the destroyed detention centre. Photo: AFP

Russia, Ukraine trade blame over strike on jail hosting prisoners of war

Moscow said 40 prisoners and eight prison staff were killed

July 29, 2022| AFP |62
Ukrainians are looking to wresting back the Kherson region. Pictured: the destroyed Fabrika shopping mall in the city of Kherson. Photo: AFP

Ukraine moves closer to grain exports, strikes Russian-held bridge

Kyiv announces plans to increase its electricity imports to Europe

July 28, 2022| AFP |48
AFP file photo of the Eurovision 2022 runner-up Sam Ryder performing on behalf of the UK during the final of the Eurovision Song contest 2022 on May 14, 2022 at the Pala Alpitour venue in Turin.

UK to host 2023 Eurovision instead of Ukraine

It will be hosted by the BBC

July 25, 2022| AFP, Times of Malta |4
A handout image made available by the Odessa City Council Telegram channel on July 24, 2022, shows Ukrainian firefighters battling a fire on a boat burning in the port of Odessa after missiles hit the port on July 23, 2022. Photo: AFP

Russia says Odessa strikes hit Western arms

The Ukrainian port is central to a landmark grain export deal

July 25, 2022| AFP |109
Representatives of both sides pose during the grain deal signing in Istanbul. Photo: AFP

Russian missiles hit Ukraine's Odessa port, in 'spit in the face' to grain deal

Port infrastructure damaged, less than one day after Istanbul grain deal signing

July 23, 2022| AFP |205
Exhibition views showing photography by Darrin Zammit Lupi and Heidi Levine. Photos: Malta Enterprise

‘Every photojournalist is trying to make a difference’

Exhibition depicts scenes from several war zones

July 17, 2022| Lara Zammit |0
Mabel Strickland, Carmela ‘Meme’ Cortis, May Agius and Henrietta Chevalier (left to right) were among the women who kept Malta afloat during the war and will feature in a GO Originals docudrama series called The Women of George Cross Island. Photos: Director Justin Farrugia and director of photography Isaac Fenech

The tireless women who kept Malta afloat in the war and helped achieve suffrage

A docudrama series tells a tale left out of history books

July 17, 2022| Sarah Carabott |11
An elderly woman shows the destruction at her house following a Russian missile strike in the city of Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, on July 16, 2022. Photo: AFP

In Ukraine's east, 'we're alive, it's a good day'

Leaning on her cane, Olga Dekanenko walks through the rubble and debris of her home in eastern Ukraine that was heavily damaged in a Russian strike in the early hours of Saturday. Workers are pumping water out of a deep 10-metre-wide (30 feet) crater...

July 16, 2022| AFP |3
Carmelo Aquilina (first from right) and some crew members of HMS Hardy on arrival in London after serving in Norwegian waters.

Carmelo Aquilina, the cook on HMS Hardy

Role of ship’s crew in WWII honoured with Victoria Cross medal

July 15, 2022| Times of Malta |0
Liza, moments before her speech therapy session (left), and shorty after 11am (right). Images: Twitter, Instagram

Outcry after Ukrainian girl is killed moments after cheerfully strolling in city

Her mother survived Russian strike, losing a limb

July 15, 2022| Sarah Carabott |314
A local resident walks in front of a crater from a missile hit in front of a partially destroyed residential building in the Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, on July 1, 2022, amid Russia's military invasion launched on Ukraine. Photo: AFP

War in Ukraine: Latest developments

Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine: Separatists say key city surrounded... Ukrainian separatists backed by Russia say they had "completely" encircled the key city of Lysychansk in the eastern Lugansk region. "Today the Lugansk...

July 2, 2022| AFP |6
This picture taken early on July 2, 2022 shows a fire inside the building used by Libya's Tobruk-based parliament building in the country's east, lit up by protesters who broke inside while demonstrating against deteriorating living conditions and political deadlock. Photo: AFP

Libyan protesters storm parliament building in Tobruk

Parliament has been based in Tobruk since the 2014 east-west schism

July 2, 2022| AFP |18
This year’s harbour cruises will retrace the historic events which occurred between 1940 and 1943.

Heritage Malta organising commemorative harbour cruises

Tours will include historical information

July 1, 2022| Press Release |1
While older children might be comfortable talking, younger children might not be able to express their feelings and fears through language. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Explaining the war to a child

Children do not need all the answers, but presence and support

June 27, 2022| Karen Decelis|0
This picture taken on on May 17, 2022 in Libya's capital Tripoli shows a view of vehicles destroyed during fighting between forces loyal to the Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah and rival forces of the Tobruk-based government, after the latter forces withdrew. Photo: AFP

No deal as UN's latest Libya mediation effort ends

2.8 million of Libya's nearly 7 million people registered to vote

June 20, 2022| AFP |29
An A13 Cruiser tank at Għajn Tuffieħa. Photo: Wikipedia

When 'traffic' accidents in Malta were caused by armoured vehicles

Malta's landscape was not ideal for Bren Gun Carriers

June 19, 2022| Jeffrey Sammut|10
Ukrainian servicemen fire a French self-propelled 155 mm/52-calibre gun Caesar towards Russian positions in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas. When war breaks out, as happened between Russia and Ukraine, what does it mean for a country like Malta to remain neutral? Photo: AFP

Time to review our neutrality? – Mark Said

Neutrality is, at times, a graver sin than belligerence.

June 19, 2022| Mark Said|39
A woman mourns over the body of her relative who was reportedly killed by a cluster rocket in the city of Lysychansk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 18, 2022. Credit: AFP

Zelensky hails EU backing as fierce battles rock Donbas

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed Brussels' support for Kyiv's European Union bid as a historic achievement, as "fierce battles" raged again in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.  The European Commission spearheaded a powerful show of...

June 18, 2022| AFP |2
(L-R) Romanian President Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Prime minister of Italy Mario Draghi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, President of France Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz hold a press conference following their meeting in Mariinsky Palace, in Kyiv, on June 16, 2022. The European Union's most powerful leaders on June 16 embraced Ukraine's bid to be accepted as a candidate for EU membership, in a powerful symbol of support in Kyiv's battle against Russia's invasion. Photo: AFP

Zelensky hails EU backing as intense shelling hits Donbas

Vladimir Putin said he had 'nothing against' Ukraine joining the EU

June 17, 2022| AFP |12
Two of the works on display: ‘Petu’ (left) and ‘Visa’. Photos: Christine X Art Gallery

Sliema exhibition portrays childhood of those affected by war

Ethiopian artist draws from experience

June 17, 2022| Times of Malta |0
The cruiser HMS Hermione was torpedoed on June 16, 1942 by the German submarine U205 while returning to Alexandria. Photos: Imperial War Museum

Two convoys’ attempts to supply beleaguered Malta in June 1942

Operation Harpoon ships that reached Malta delivered 13,532 tons of supplies

June 16, 2022| Charles Debono, curator, National War Museum|0
Visual artist from Kosovo Petrit Halilaj during his exhibition at the Kamel Mennour Gallery in Paris. Photos: Julien de Rosa/AFP

Revisiting trauma with a child-refugee-turned artist

Petrit Halilaj is now exhibiting at the Kamel Mennour gallery in Paris

June 14, 2022| AFP |0
A wounded woman receives treatment from Ukrainian servicemen in Donbas, Eastern Ukraine on June 11. Photo: AFP

War in Ukraine: Latest developments

Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine: Ukraine to get word on EU hopes  Ukraine's bid to become a candidate to join the EU will get a clear signal next week, the bloc's chief Ursula von der Leyen announces in a surprise visit to...

June 11, 2022| AFP |25
Several ships anchored in Grand Harbour. HMS Glorious is possibly in the background on the left.

The men who died on HMS Glorious… and their connection to Malta

Glarac Association aims to conduct annual Service of Remembrance this Sunday

June 9, 2022| Saviour Azzopardi, chairperson of the Glarac Association (Malta)|1
Photo: Shutterstock

UN chief warns impact of Ukraine war on food security ‘severe’ 

Estimated 1.6 billion people likely to be affected

June 8, 2022| AFP |40
Ukrainian servicemen assist their comrades not far from the frontline in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, on May 21, 2022. Photo: AFP

Ukraine says Russia using 'all its power' to capture eastern city

Ukraine said Saturday its forces were managing to push back against Russian troops in fierce fighting in Severodonetsk despite Russia "throwing all its power" into capturing the strategic eastern city. At least seven civilians were reported killed in...

June 4, 2022| AFP |13
In this AFP file photo, soldiers of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), look out over the desert from a watchtower in Mali. Two peacekeepers were killed and two others injured on June 3, 2022 after an improvised explosive device exploded in central Mali.

Bomb kills two peacekeepers in Mali: UN

Sixth incident in which a UN peacekeeping convoy was hit since May 22

June 4, 2022| AFP |1