Car-Bomb Kills “One-Woman WikiLeaks” Who Led Panama Papers Revelations

In her crusade against corruption, Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, took on top politicians and other powerful Maltese, including by exposing links through the Panama Papers leak.

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By ZeroHedge.com
The wreckage of the car of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia lies next to a road in the town of Mosta, Malta, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. Malta's prime minister says a car bomb has killed an investigative journalist on the island nation. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said the bomb that killed reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia exploded Monday afternoon as she left her home in a town outside Malta's capital, Valetta. (AP/Rene Rossignaud)

Meet Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta. A blogger whose posts often attracted more readers than the combined circulation of the country’s newspapers, Caruana Galizia was recently described by Politico as a “one-woman WikiLeaks”. To John Dalli, a former European commissioner

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From al-Qaeda Terrorist To CIA “Freedom Fighter”: One Man’s Journey From Europe To Libya

In the bloody terror-fueled conflicts that have been waged by the U.S. and NATO in Libya and Syria, one man has helped to recruit so-called “freedom fighters” and unleash them on those countries’ innocent civilians. But he has yet to be brought to justice.

Steven Sahiounie
By Steven Sahiounie
Mahdi al-Harati, former commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan Civil War, is seen here fighting in Syria as commander of Liwaa Al-Umma, a designated terrorist group fighting the Syrian government.

BEIRUT (Analysis) -- Interpol may be on the hunt for the former mayor of Libya’s capital of Tripoli - an Irish-Libyan man who has been named as an international terrorist by Saudi Arabia. Mahdi al-Harati has lived in Malta on-and-off since 2014. In January 2017, he was arrested due to his involvement in a knife attack in Malta that occurred

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Meet The Tiny Country Pushing For Huge Change In Palestine

Malta’s foreign minister tells MintPress: “If Israel continues to expand, there is going to be no land left for a two-state solution. There are volumes of condemnation but no concrete action against Israel.”

Ramona Wadi
By Ramona Wadi

Maltese protesters ‘play dead’ on the steps of City Gate in Valletta to show their opposition to the 2014 Israeli attack on Gaza. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier VALLETTA, Malta --- In the course of a joint endeavor between the Maltese Foreign Ministry and the University of Malta, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki gave a public lecture

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While Europe Wrestles With Migrant Issue, A Vigil Is Held In Malta

Though anti-immigrant sentiment runs high in Malta, a tiny island in the Mediterranean, it’s not stopping citizens from reflecting on the humanitarian disaster reflected in the deaths of 1,500 refugees fleeing to Europe so far this year.

Ramona Wadi
By Ramona Wadi
A woman lays a candle by the sea during a candle light vigil in Sliema, in the outskirts of Valletta, Malta, Wednesday, April 22, 2015. A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off the coast of Libya on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy. The burial ceremony of the 24 rescued bodies will take place in Malta Thursday.

A woman lays a candle  by the sea during a candle light vigil in Sliema, in the outskirts of Valletta, Malta, Wednesday, April 22, 2015. A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off the coast of Libya on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy. The burial

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