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Chelsea's Cole Palmer, left, celebrates after scoring his side's fourth goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Manchester City at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ian Walton)

Chelsea midfielder Cole Palmer gets England call up for European Championship qualifiers

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FILE - Rescuers approach a migrants' boat adrift in international waters off Malta in the Mediterranean Sea, on Oct. 25, 2022. The leaders of nine southern European Union countries met in Malta on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, to discuss common challenges such as migration, the EU's management of which has vexed national governments in Europe for years. (AP Photo/Vincenzo Circosta)

Leaders of European Union’s Mediterranean nations huddle in Malta to discuss migration

By Kevin Schembri Orland - Associated Press

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Sullivan met in Malta over the past two days with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the Maltese government said Sunday, Sept. 17, in a statement. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden’s national security adviser holds two days of talks in Malta with China’s foreign minister

By Aamer Madhani and Josh Boak - Associated Press

Jean-Philippe Chetcuti, Managing Partner of Chetcuti Cauchi

The American-Malta Connection with Legal Expertise from Chetcuti Cauchi

By Mercury Global Reports and Civitas Post

Malta — Europe’s idyllic wealth hub

By Mercury Global Reports and Civitas Post

Louise Vella, Director Papilio Services

Papilio Services: Redefining Corporate Success and Residency in Malta

By Mercury Global Reports and Civitas Post

Activists hold up banners in both English and Maltese reading, 'I decide', 'Abortion is a woman's right', and 'Abortion is healthcare, not a crime', as they stand outside the Maltese law courts in Valletta, Malta, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Maltese lawmakers are expected to vote Wednesday, June 28, 2023 on landmark legislation to ease the the strictest abortion laws in the European Union. But a coalition of pro-choice campaigners say last-minute changes make the legislation “vague, unworkable and even dangerous.” (AP Photo/Kevin Schembri Orland, File)

Maltese lawmakers vote to legalize abortion, but only where there is a grave risk to the mother

By Kevin Schembri Orland - Associated Press

Members of the Maltese armed forces escort the catamaran carrying Pope Francis and leaving Valletta's harbor for Gozo in Malta Saturday, April 2, 2022. Rescue groups are accusing the European Island nation of Malta of coordinating the return of around 500 people to Libya where they were subsequently imprisoned, in violation of international maritime law. (Andreas Solaro/Pool via AP, File)

Rescue groups say Malta coordinated the return of 500 migrants to Libya instead of saving them

By Renata Brito - Associated Press

In this file photo, Albrecht von Boeselager, second from right, walks in procession along with other Knights of Malta before the election of the new Grand Master, at the order's Villa Magistrale on Rome's Aventine Hill ahead of the secret balloting on April 29, 2017. On Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, Pope Francis dissolved the leadership of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and installed provisional governance pending a new leadership election in early 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis dissolves Knights of Malta leadership, enacts new constitution for sovereign order

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Pope Francis, center, is flanked by, from left, Secretary General of the Conference of Bishops Cardinal Mario Grech, Gozo's Bishop Antonio Teuma, as he talks to Monsignor Diego Ravelli during a meeting on the parvis of the Ta' Pinu national sanctuary in Gharb on the Maltese island of Gozo, Saturday, April 2, 2022. Pope Francis headed to the Mediterranean island nation of Malta on Saturday for a pandemic-delayed weekend visit, aiming to draw attention to Europe's migration challenge that has only become more stark with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis prays for end to ‘sacrilegious’ war, refugee welcome

By Nicole Winfield and Luigi Navarra - Associated Press

FILE Pope Francis says the vespers in the Roman Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on the solemnity of the conversion of St. Paul, in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Pope Francis heads to Malta on April 2, 2022 with the refugee exodus from Ukraine casting a haunting backdrop to a migration drama that for years has focused on Malta and the plight of desperate people who arrive there seeking shelter in Europe. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope heads to Malta; Migration, Ukraine war top his agenda

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

A month after migrant rescue, tanker off Malta awaits port

By FRANCES D'EMILIO and MARIA GRAZIA MURRU - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Thursday, July 3, 2020, migrants and SOS Mediterranee staffers stand aboard the Ocean Viking ship in the Mediterranean Sea. A charity ship says it has declared a state of emergency on board after six of the rescued migrants aboard tried to kill themselves. SOS Mediterranee, which operates the Ocean Viking, said in a statement Friday, July 3, 2020 that some of the 180 migrants have started physical fights among themselves or are threatening fellow survivors and crew. (Flavio Gasperini/SOS Mediterranee via AP)

Aid ship declares emergency after 6 migrants attempt suicide

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

In this photo taken Tuesday, June 2, 2020, migrants dry their clothes aboard a tourist boats some 20 kilometers from Malta, . More than 400 migrants are living aboard pleasure cruise vessels, bobbing in the sea off Malta, many of them for weeks now. Rescued from human traffickers’ unseaworthy boats in several operations in the central Mediterranean since late April, the migrants, along with the Maltese government, are waiting for European Union countries to offer to take them. (AP Photo/Rene' Rossignaud)

Europe rights body urges action for migrants stuck off Malta

Associated Press

Migrants dry their clothes aboard a tourist boats some 20 kilometers from Malta, Tuesday, June 2, 2020. More than 400 migrants are living aboard pleasure cruise vessels, bobbing in the sea off Malta, many of them for weeks now. Rescued from human traffickers’ unseaworthy boats in several operations in the central Mediterranean since late April, the migrants, along with the Maltese government, are waiting for European Union countries to offer to take them. (AP Photo/Rene' Rossignaud)

Rescued migrants stranded on chartered Maltese tourist boats

By FRANCES D'EMILIO and RENE ROSSIGNAUD - Associated Press

Malta defends its use of private vessels to rescue migrants

By STEPHEN CALLEJA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, June 28, 2018 file photo, Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, attends a consistory in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, who steered the ancient Knights of Malta religious order through an institutional crisis with the Vatican as its prince and grand master, has died. He was 75.The order said Dalla Torre died early Wednesday after being diagnosed several months ago with an incurable disease. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Dalla Torre, grand master of Knights of Malta, dies at 75

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A view of Piazza del Popolo, in Rome, Saturday, March 7, 2020. With the coronavirus emergency deepening in Europe, Italy, a focal point in the contagion, risks falling back into recession as foreign tourists are spooked from visiting its cultural treasures and the global market shrinks for prized artisanal products, from fashion to design. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope limits public blessings to help against virus spread

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Finland says to take in max 175 Mediterranean asylum-seekers

Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2019 file photo, Pope Francis attends a feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology, at the Vatican. Pope Francis will mark the fifth anniversary of his ecological manifesto by visiting a southern Italian region where decades of toxic-waste dumping by the mob have polluted the environment and sickened its people. The diocese of Acerra announced Francis’ May 24 visit on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope to visit Malta on May 31 in first foreign trip of 2020

Associated Press