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FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 10, 2020 file photo, Maltese Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Joseph Muscat, back to camera at right, is hugged by party member Chris Fearne during a party general assembly where he delivered his farewell speech as party leader in Kordin, near Valletta. At left party member Robert Abela. A new leader will be elected during the weekend. (AP Photo/Rene Rossignaud, File)

Malta’s next premier vows ‘continuity’ amid car bomb fallout

By STEPHEN CALLEJA - Associated Press

Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat waives during his farewell speech as Labour Party leader in Kordin, near Valletta, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. A new leader will be elected during the weekend. (AP Photo/Rene Rossignaud)

Malta’s Labor Party picks new chief after reporter’s slaying

By STEPHEN CALLEJA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, June 20, 2019 file photo, Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels. Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said Sunday Dec. 1, 2019, that he would resign in January following pressure from citizens for the truth about the 2017 car bombing that killed a journalist. (Julien Warnand/Pool via AP, File)

Malta’s PM on way out: I paid price for reporter’s slaying

By STEPHEN CALLEJA - Associated Press

People protest outside the office of the Prime Minister at Castille, in Valletta, Malta, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, as a delegation od European Union lawmakers is visiting the country after an investigation into the murder of leading investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia implicated Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s chief of staff. (AP Photo/Rene Rossignaud)

EU deputy: Not a bad idea to question Malta PM in slaying

By STEPHEN CALLEJA and FRANCES D’EMILIO - Associated Press

A protestors holds up a pictures of slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia during a demonstration outside Malta's prime minister's office in Valletta, Malta, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. On Wednesday Maltese police arrested Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s former chief of staff Keith Schembri for questioning as a person of interest in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. (AP Photo/Str)

Developments in Malta’s slain journalist investigation

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FILE - In this Thursday, June 20, 2019 file photo, Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels. Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said Sunday Dec. 1, 2019, that he would resign in January following pressure from citizens for the truth about the 2017 car bombing that killed a journalist. (Julien Warnand/Pool via AP, File)

EU mission in Malta expresses credibility doubts

By STEPHEN CALLEJA - Associated Press

Ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes of Calif., gives his closing remarks as former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, and David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (Associated Press/File)

Devin Nunes slaps CNN with $435 million defamation lawsuit

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A protester holds up a picture of murdered reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia on the second day of a demonstration outside Malta's prime minister's office in Valletta, Malta, early Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. On Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019 Maltese police arrested Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s former chief of staff Keith Schembri for questioning as a person of interest in the murder of the journalist. (AP Photo/Str)

Maltese prosecutors charge businessman in reporter’s killing

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Undated file photo of Malta Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s former chief of staff Keith Schembri, who was arrested this week for questioning as a person of interest in the October 2017 car-bomb murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. After languishing for two years, the investigation has moved swiftly since a Maltese businessman was arrested on a private yacht trying to flee Malta last week. The businessman, Yorgen Fenech, provided information about Muscat’s ex-chief of staff, Keith Schembri, reportedly in a bid to win immunity. (AP Photo/str)

Family of slain journalist presses Malta’s PM to resign

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Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech is accompanied by police during a search of his yacht at the dock of Portomaso, Malta, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Fenech was arrested Wednesday, then released on police bail late Thursday as investigators try to find a mastermind of the 2017 murder of investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia on the small island nation. (AP Photo/stringer)

Malta PM faces call to resign; aide arrested in murder probe

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FILE - This April 4, 2016 file photo shows Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed by a car bomb in Malta on Oct. 16, 2017. Maltese authorities say a man arrested in a money-laundering case claims to have information identifying the mastermind behind the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. (AP Photo/Jon Borg, File)

Malta arrests exec, apparently linked to journalist slaying

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FILE - This April 4, 2016 file photo shows Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed by a car bomb in Malta on Oct. 16, 2017. Maltese authorities say a man arrested in a money-laundering case claims to have information identifying the mastermind behind the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. (AP Photo/Jon Borg, File)

Malta offers pardon for possible info in reporter’s slaying

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Spain's Santi Cazorla celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during a Euro 2020 Group F qualifying soccer match between Spain and Malta at the Ramon de Carranza stadium in Cadiz, Spain, Friday Nov. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Miguel Morenatti)

Cazorla nets first for Spain in 4 years in 7-0 rout of Malta

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FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2019, file photo, migrants aboard a blue plastic boat are seen in the Mediterranean Sea. The U.N. refugee agency is investigating why Malta last week allegedly asked the Libyan coast guard to intercept a migrant boat in a zone of the Mediterranean under Maltese responsibility, in possible violation of maritime law, a U.N. official said Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Renata Brito)

UNHCR probes Libya-Malta interception in migrant rescue

By RENATA BRITO and GIADA ZAMPANO - Associated Press

In this photo taken Saturday and released Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019, a rescue team of the Ocean Viking ship, operated by the NGOs Sos Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders, helps a person rescued from a rubber dinghy with over 80 migrants off the Libyan coast. The Ocean Viking was already carrying over 80 people rescued earlier, and is blocked at sea while it waits to be assigned a safe port. Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who has triggered a government crisis in Italy, signed Friday a ban on the ship's entry into Italian waters. (Hannah Wallace Bowman/MSF/Sos Mediterranee via AP)

The Latest: Ocean Viking asks Italy, Malta for a safe harbor

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The Italian NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans' Alex migrant rescue ship carrying 46 migrants rescued off Libya coasts, docks in the port of Lampedusa, Sicily island, Italy, Saturday, July 6, 2019. Italy’s hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has barred all private rescue ships from entering Italian ports. He pointed to an offer from Malta to accept the migrants from the Italian-flagged ship. (Elio Desiderio/ANSA via AP)

Malta OKs transfer of 65 migrants from German ship to port

By GIADA ZAMPANO - Associated Press

Migrants wave as they disembark at Hay Wharf, Pieta, Malta, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. The 49 rescued migrants who were stranded at sea since last month were brought to Malta and then distributed among eight European Union countries. The deal, announced by Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, breaks a stalemate that began after 32 were rescued by a German aid group's vessel on Dec. 22. The other 17 were rescued on Dec. 29 by a different aid boat. Both Italy and Malta have refused to let private rescue ships bring migrants to their shores. (AP Photo/Rene Rossignaud)

Malta is punching above its weight

By L. Todd Wood

Malta rescues 216 migrants from 2 boats in Mediterranean Sea

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Migrants on a rubber dinghy are approached by Sea-Watch rescue ship's staffers in the waters off Libya Wednesday, April 3, 2019. The German humanitarian group Sea-Watch says the ship it operates in the central Mediterranean Sea has rescued 64 migrants in waters off Libya. Sea-Watch wrote Wednesday on Twitter that the people brought to safety from a rubber dinghy included 10 women, five children and a newborn baby. The group said it carried out the rescue off the coast of Zuwarah after Libyan authorities couldn't be reached. Sea-Watch is asking Italy or Malta to open a port to the rescue ship, the Alan Kurdi. (Fabian Heinz/Sea-eye.org via AP)

Malta: 4 EU nations will take in 64 migrants from aid ship

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Armed forces stand onboard the Turkish oil tanker El Hiblu 1, which was hijacked by migrants, in Valletta, Malta, Thursday March 28, 2019. A Maltese special operations team boarded a tanker Thursday that had been hijacked by migrants rescued at sea and recaptured control of it before escorting it to a Maltese port. Italy's hard-line interior minister slammed the migrants as pirates but aid groups rejected that label, saying the European Union's policy of sending migrants back to lawless Libya was to blame. (AP Photo/Rene' Rossignaud)

AP Exclusive: Captain feared death in migrant hijack at sea

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and VANESSA GERA and STEPHEN CALLEJA - Associated Press