The leader of a European Parliament mission to Malta said embattled Prime Minister Joseph Muscat should be questioned by police as a probe into the 2017 murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia led into his office.

Joseph Muscat's government is scrambling to survive after cabinet members linked to the investigation into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia resign.

A prominent businessman on Malta who owned a company that investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia said was linked to top politicians was arrested on his yacht while leaving the island.

Latvia’s Central Bank chief Ilmars Rimsevics, 54, a sitting member of the European Central Bank (ECB) board, is finally on trial in a critical case for the Eurozone's governing body.

Newspapers all across the spectrum blacked out their front pages as part of the Australia's Right to Know coalition campaign, in a country characterized as the world's most secretive democracy.

Henry Kyle Frese, US Defense Intelligence Agency official who investigators believe was being directed to hunt for government secrets was charged with leaking classified information after being arrested by the FBI.

Visiting Malta, parting EU Justice Commissioner Jourova vowed to work towards strengthening protection for journalists in the European Union.

The former head of Denmark's Danske Bank Estonian branch linked to a $230 million money laundering scandal that has ensnared Dutch bank ABN Amro and Germany's Deutsche Bank was found dead in an apparent suicide.

EU Justice Commissioner Jourova named Laura Codruta Kovesi as the Union's first anti-graft prosecutor.

The family of murdered investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia said they have no faith in an allegedly independent probe into her killing on Malta, with a panel set up by the government that includes a lawyer who represented clients she was looking into for possible corrupt ties at the highest level.

A former deputy justice minister for Greece's ousted Radical Left SYRIZA denies concocting a fake bribery scandal around the Swiss drug company Novartis to implicate political rivals.

Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, designated EU Justice Commissioner, is being probed over a corruption case.