News from Malta
575 news articles from publishers in Malta, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is maltadaily.mt with 300 articles, 52.2% of the total, followed by theshiftnews.com, laikosblog.org. By language it splits into English (574), Italian (1). Daily volume averages about 36 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 50 on 2026-09-03.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=MT&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=MT&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Malta articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=MT&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T11:52 | Here’s Your First Look At Junior Eurovision Song Contest Stage For Malta 2026 | maltadaily.mt |
2026-09-07T11:50 | Birkirkara FC Honour Greta Sultana A Year From Her Passing | maltadaily.mt |
2026-09-07T11:37 | Woman Reportedly Falsely Fundraising Money For Marie Louise Coleiro Preca | maltadaily.mt |
2026-09-07T11:23 | Byron Camilleri Unites With Rowers Ahead Of Victory Day Regatta On September 8th | maltadaily.mt |
2026-09-07T11:11 | ‘I Expect No Less Than A Retrial’, Says Matthew Caruana Galizia | maltadaily.mt |
2026-09-07T10:40 | Alan Xuereb Declared Champion At Traditional Xlendi Ġostra | maltadaily.mt |
2026-09-07T10:40 | Valletta FC Fans Decorate National Stadium In Red And White | maltadaily.mt |
2026-09-07T10:36 | FM Theatre Productions Launches Search For Sanremo Junior Malta 2026 | maltadaily.mt |
Who publishes it
The 5 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
maltadaily.mt | 300 | 52.2% | query |
theshiftnews.com | 126 | 21.9% | query |
laikosblog.org | 95 | 16.5% | query |
simonmercieca.com | 53 | 9.2% | query |
www.ilcorrierino.com | 1 | 0.2% | query |
Languages published in Malta
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
Domain zones used by Malta publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07 | 35 | |
2026-09-06 | 40 | |
2026-09-05 | 46 | |
2026-09-04 | 45 | |
2026-09-03 | 50 | |
2026-09-02 | 48 | |
2026-09-01 | 13 | |
2026-08-31 | 11 | |
2026-08-30 | 14 | |
2026-08-29 | 29 | |
2026-08-28 | 44 | |
2026-08-27 | 47 | |
2026-08-26 | 54 | |
2026-08-25 | 18 |
Combine with other filters
# Malta, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=MT&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Malta, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=MT&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Malta, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=MT&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"