Paul Caruana Galizia became a reporter after his mother Daphne was assassinated and since then has won some journalism awards and, with his two brothers, a Magnitsky Human Rights Award and an Anderson-Lucas-Norman Award for tax justice heroism. He is from Malta.
Paul Caruana Galizia
Editor and reporter

“Tortoise gives me time to report the full story.”
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Tuesday 17 May 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: The great unequaliser
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Tuesday 10 May 2022
Lee Way
Xi Jinping has a new enforcer in Hong Kong: John Lee, a man who wants zero Covid and zero dissent
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Tuesday 10 May 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Lee way
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Tuesday 3 May 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: The Battle for Donbas
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Tuesday 26 April 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: China Covid syndrome
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Tuesday 19 April 2022
The Rwanda plan
Outsourcing asylum claims is not a new idea, but if history’s any guide it is enormously expensive
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Tuesday 19 April 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: The Rwanda Plan
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Tuesday 12 April 2022
Return of the dynasty
Pakistan’s new prime minister faces charges of laundering $30 million. But at least he didn’t dissolve parliament and threaten martial law, like his predecessor
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Tuesday 12 April 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Return of the dynasty
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Tuesday 22 March 2022
Peace talks
For the first time, Zelensky has proposed a referendum to decide the fate of Crimea and the Donbas. That doesn’t mean he’s ready to give them up though. It may mean just the opposite
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Tuesday 22 March 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Peace talks
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Tuesday 15 March 2022
Truth to power
It is vital for Putin that a majority of Russians go on believing his lies. That is why it matters when a producer on a flagship state-run TV news bulletin runs onto the set with a placard denouncing them
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Tuesday 15 March 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Truth to power
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Tuesday 8 March 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Food fallout
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Monday 7 March 2022
Johnson had a pandemic to deal with, but he also had a friend to promote
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Thursday 3 March 2022
“World War Three is already here” – says the woman who confronted Johnson
Paul Caruana Galizia reports from Warsaw
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Wednesday 2 March 2022
Voices from the border
Paul Caruana Galizia and Gary Marshall report from Krościenko
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Monday 28 February 2022
View from the border
Paul Caruana Galizia reports from Przemyśl
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Monday 28 February 2022
Lebedev: Lord of Siberia
Evgeny Lebedev: In pictures
Little is publicly known about Evgeny Lebedev’s rise to the upper echelons of the British establishment – but there are plenty of photographs
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Thursday 10 February 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Expensive life
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Tuesday 1 February 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: On borrowed time
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Tuesday 25 January 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Afghanistan, 2022
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Tuesday 18 January 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Is it over?
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Tuesday 11 January 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Elgin Marbles
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Wednesday 5 January 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Opportunity cost
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Thursday 16 December 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Nuclear Biscuit
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Tuesday 14 December 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Omicron goes global
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Tuesday 14 December 2021
A tale of two piers
Brighton’s Palace Pier, built in 1899, is still standing proud but the once regal West Pier is a different story, writes Paul Caruana Galizia
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Thursday 9 December 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Plan B – boot Boris?
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Tuesday 7 December 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Dysfunction and chaos?
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Tuesday 30 November 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Maxwell trial
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Wednesday 24 November 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: The Great Migration
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Thursday 18 November 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Holy moly
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Tuesday 16 November 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: New lockdowns
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Thursday 11 November 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Trapped in Whitehall
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Thursday 11 November 2021
The final curtain
Did exposure to asbestos in the National Theatre contribute to an actor’s death? Paul Caruana Galizia investigates
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Tuesday 9 November 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Parliamentary sleaze
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Monday 8 November 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Get serious week
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Friday 5 November 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Covid in Europe
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Thursday 4 November 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: British corruption
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Wednesday 3 November 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Bosnia
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Thursday 28 October 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Interest and inflation
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Tuesday 26 October 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Got your back
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Thursday 21 October 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Sajid Javid Covid
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Wednesday 20 October 2021
Pills don’t cure poverty
Official data shows that the prescription of antidepressants is highest in areas of deprivation. But medication can only mask the suffering that poor services, housing and health conditions cause. It is no solution.
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Tuesday 19 October 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: The Great Resignation
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Thursday 14 October 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: The protocol stand-off
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Tuesday 12 October 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Noble economics
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Friday 8 October 2021
The meaning of Petrofac
This week, the company was fined for failing to prevent bribes. The case shows just how the oil and gas industries really work – and who loses out
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Thursday 7 October 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Party of power?
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Tuesday 5 October 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Facebook down
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Thursday 30 September 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Pfizer’s pandemic
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Tuesday 28 September 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Inflation
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Friday 24 September 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Johnson MIA
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Thursday 23 September 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Nevergrande
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Wednesday 22 September 2021
The UK is already a money laundering hotspot. It could get worse
Tortoise has received leaked documents that reveal more of the country’s position in international laundering networks. At the same time, the government is trying to loosen financial regulations
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Tuesday 21 September 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: America first, Haiti last
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Friday 17 September 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Shine a light
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Thursday 16 September 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Long Johnson
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Thursday 16 September 2021
The Arms Race
The Covid coup
Tunisia’s leader used vaccine shortages to take power, and then vaccine supply to consolidate his new position
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Tuesday 14 September 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Taliban words and actions
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Thursday 9 September 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: El Salvador
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Thursday 9 September 2021
The Arms Race
A global shame: Millions of preventable deaths
Vaccination against Covid has saved 100,000 lives in England. How many lives would have been saved by a similar effort around the world?
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Tuesday 7 September 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Perfect storm
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Friday 3 September 2021
The Arms Race
Introducing: #TheArmsRace Vaccine Tracker
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Friday 3 September 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Back to school
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Wednesday 1 September 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Leaving Afghanistan
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Tuesday 31 August 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: A country without music
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Thursday 29 July 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Tunisian crisis
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Wednesday 28 July 2021
The Arms Race
What we lack in the fight against Covid: information
Data on vaccine donations and deliveries is delayed, incomplete or absent. Opacity on this, the single most important global supply crisis we currently face, is a barrier to ending the pandemic
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Monday 26 July 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Vaccine stockpiling
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Thursday 22 July 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Pandemic of the unvaccinated
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Monday 19 July 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Freedom Day
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Tuesday 13 July 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: The great Covid gamble
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Monday 12 July 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Troppo Bello
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Thursday 8 July 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Vaccinating America
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Tuesday 6 July 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Vaccine neighbourhoods
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Friday 25 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Shots fired
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Thursday 24 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Hong Kong crackdown
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Wednesday 23 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Google this
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Tuesday 22 June 2021
Extreme drought
Brazil’s southern region has been crippled by a lack of rain in the last year, an event that’s been attributed to the inversion of La Niña. But why has it reversed? And why now?
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Monday 21 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Covid nations
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Friday 18 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Wealth tax
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Thursday 17 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Biden-Putin summit
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Wednesday 16 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Murder and institutional corruption
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Tuesday 15 June 2021
Summit happened
The world leaders left the G7 Summit in Cornwall yesterday promising “a green revolution”. But will their pledge actually translate into meaningful action?
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Monday 14 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: The West vs Autocrats
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Wednesday 9 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: American myth
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Tuesday 8 June 2021
A death at Lancaster Lodge
Fatal flaws
The death of Sophie Bennett might have been prevented – were it not for a series of failures by those entrusted with her care, including the state
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Monday 7 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Historic tax deal
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Friday 4 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Britain’s big moment
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Thursday 3 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Capitol crimes
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Wednesday 2 June 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Three-child China
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Monday 24 May 2021
10 minute readOff the deep end
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Thursday 20 May 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: The great chip shortage
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Thursday 13 May 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Total global failure
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Thursday 6 May 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Another pandemic
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Friday 30 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: The Covid baby bust
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Monday 26 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: India burning
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Thursday 22 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Fossil fools
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Monday 19 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Boom time
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Thursday 1 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Crisis in Brazil
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Wednesday 31 March 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: An international beacon of racial equality
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Wednesday 10 March 2021
Russia
Dirty Money
Russian corruption has been endemic for years; long enough for the watchdogs to know how it operates by laundering money through front companies. Why does the UK still make it so easy to pull off those old, corrupt tricks?
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Thursday 4 February 2021
Corinna & the king
Further reading
This was a love story, just one with lots of money involved. Now keep on turning the pages
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Wednesday 3 February 2021
Corinna & the king
Secret stash
How much money does Juan Carlos have? We’ve tried our best to find out
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Tuesday 2 February 2021
Corinna & the king
Between friends
They were meant to be secret: money transfers between Saudi Arabia and King Juan Carlos of Spain, and then between the king and his lover. But they came mercilessly to light
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Thursday 21 January 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: New US management
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Friday 11 December 2020
Paul Caruana Galizia: Hearing from a deposed prime minster
Joseph Muscat, former leader of Malta, has been testifying at the public inquiry into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination
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Tuesday 6 October 2020
10 minute readTest and trace
Testing is GREAT
What the data tells us about Covid-19 testing failings
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Saturday 23 November 2019
Reasons to fight
This week a key suspect in my mother’s murder was arrested. The conspiracy to protect her killers is finally beginning to crumble
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Saturday 1 June 2019
10 minute readDirty money, bloody murder
- The killing of a Latvian bankruptcy lawyer one year ago remains unsolved
- He was due to look into financial details about a bank linked to money-laundering and North Korea
- The assassination casts a shadow of corruption over Europe, where waves of illicit money are crashing on its eastern borders
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Tuesday 23 April 2019
10 minute readLording it
- Greg Barker has gone from being an MP and David Cameron’s climate change envoy to chairing one of the biggest aluminium and energy companies in Russia
- He used his corporate lobbying experience, and his title of Lord Barker, to overturn US Treasury sanctions against the company of Oleg Deripaska, a powerful oligarch and one of Putin’s cronies
- Barker claims that his company, En+, is an example of green energy, but environmentalists say it is one of the biggest polluters in Russia
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Monday 11 April 2022
Greg Barker: the lord’s work
The days of the Russian oligarch in London are numbered. What fate awaits the enablers – those well-connected people who worked for and provided services to wealthy Russians? This is the story of one of them
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Monday 7 March 2022
Nato says no to Ukraine no-fly zone
Activist Daria Kaleniuk made an impassioned plea to Boris Johnson for a no-fly zone over Ukraine, but Nato doesn’t want to risk a direct confrontation with Russia. She tells Tortoise why she thinks it is the wrong decision
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Monday 28 February 2022
Lebedev: Lord of Siberia
Door after door in Britain has been opened for Evgeny Lebedev, all the way to the House of Lords. Who has opened them, and why?
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Wednesday 23 June 2021
A moment of pride in the NFL
No professional American footballer has ever come out as gay while he was still playing. That changed this week thanks to Carl Nassib.
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Monday 7 June 2021
A death at Lancaster Lodge
Sophie Bennett took her own life in a care facility that was crumbling around her. Paul Caruana Galizia and Chris Cook investigate what went wrong at a charity led by a famous mental health pioneer
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Monday 1 February 2021
The money hunt
They occupied a world of high-rolling hunting parties and complicated gifts – until it went seriously wrong.
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Thursday 27 February 2020
The last domino
Within months of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder, three hitmen were arrested for the crime. Then – nothing.
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Thursday 20 February 2020
Truth to power
Daphne Caruana Galizia was a prolific reporter, juggling dozens of stories at the same time. One of those stories held the secret to her assassination. But which one?
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Thursday 13 February 2020
An assassination foretold
In October 2017, Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb in Malta where she lived and worked. Her son Paul, a reporter at Tortoise, says her family were ‘shocked but not surprised’ at her death.
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Sunday 9 February 2020
My mother’s murder
It is a little over two years since Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta’s pre-eminent investigative journalist, died in a car bomb, and the shock is still being felt.