The funeral of an investigative journalist killed in a car bomb near her home in Malta has been held without the presence of top government and opposition leaders, after her family objected to their attendance. No group or individual has so far come forward to claim responsibility for the attack on 16 October on Daphne Caruana Galizia, who led an investigation into corruption in Malta using the Panama Papers that implicated the government and the opposition.

Mourners included her husband, three adult sons and the European parliament president, Antonio Tajani, but President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca and the prime minister, Joseph Muscat, were told they were not welcome. A spokesman for Muscat said: “The family has made it widely known that it does not wish the state authorities to attend.” The government declared a national day of mourning and flags have flown at half mast.(theguardian)…[+]