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Rising Pressure Over Journalist's Killing Threatens To Topple Maltese Leadership

Daphne Caruana Galizia died in a car bombing two years ago. Now, the probe into her slaying has prompted some ministers to leave their posts. And protesters are calling for the prime minister's exit.
Protesters hold up pictures of Daphne Caruana Galizia as they gather earlier this month outside the prime minister's office in Valletta, Malta. Painful questions about the investigative journalist's murder have lingered since she was killed by a car bomb in 2017.

The past two days have not been kind to Joseph Muscat.

Amid escalating scrutiny over the unsolved murder of an investigative journalist, the Maltese prime minister received the resignations of his top aide, Keith Schembri, and Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi. At the same time, his economy minister, Christian Cardona, he was "suspending himself with immediate effect" from his position.

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