FILE PHOTO: Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is seen with his bodyguard Kenneth Camilleri during a Labour Party rally in Qormi, Malta May 30, 2017. Picture taken May 30, 2017. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi/File Photo - RC2CQD9U34QS
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday gave a private audience to outgoing Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, ignoring an appeal to cancel the meeting with a premier engulfed in crisis over a probe into a murdered journalist.
Francis met Muscat and his wife and family on Saturday morning, the Vatican said, in an audience that was far more low-key than those normally held with heads of government.
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