The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.

Times of Malta and most of the other local newspaper lead with the government’s decision to ban a ship from Malta’s harbours over Ebola fears.

Times of Malta also reports how a migrant who had been clinging to a boat had his hands chopped off.

In-Nazzjon quotes Simon Busuttil saying this is the moment to draft the future.

The Malta Independent reports how most migrants who drowned last week were refugees from Gaza.

l-orizzont and most of the newspapers also report that Prince Charles will be coming to Malta tomorrow instead of his wife the Duchess of Cambridge.

The overseas press 

Scotland has voted to remain in the United Kingdom. The Scotsman reports the final result showed the electorate decided by 55 per cent against independence.

AFP reports US warplanes have hit an Islamic State group training camp in Iraq as France announced it will join the air war. The strike on the training camp in northern Iraq killed fighters and destroyed buildings and vehicles.  

Fox News reports the UN Security Council has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a “threat to international peace and security” as France became the latest Western nation to step up its support by deploying a military hospital to Guinea, where the outbreak was first detected in March. 

The Washington Post says the White House has rejected a plea from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for weapons in the fight against Russian-backed separatists, announcing a $53 million package of non-lethal aid instead. 

Russia’s economy is grinding to a halt under the weight of international sanctions aimed at punishing the government for the crisis in Ukraine. Pravda reports Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced a tough federal budget prepared in “such difficult circumstances when an economic slowdown was exacerbated by the implementation of sanctions on individual sectors of the economy”.

A grandfather in Bell, Florida, fatally shot his daughter and her six children before killing himself. USA Today says Don Charles Spirit, 51, of Bell, a small community southeast of Tallahassee, contacted officials via 911 and said he was considering doing harm to himself and others. 

French weekly VSD published claims that President Francois Hollande was dumped by secret lover actress Julie Gayet who was ready to “turn the page” on their secret affair. The VSD article said that Gayet was reportedly “sick of the secret nature of their relationship” and dumped Hollande when she realised he did not want to formalize the two-year-long secret romance, which led to the separation of Hollande and partner Valérie Trierweiler.

Corriere della Sera says Italy’s Supreme Court has annulled a marriage on grounds of “too much maternal dependence” and lack of affection by a ‘mammone’ (Mamma’s boy) husband. A couple from Mantua, had their marriage annulled after proving that the husband’s singularly close relationship with his mother caused sexual problems and lack of affection towards his wife, who was “unaware of his disease”.

Ansa reports the father of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is being investigated along with two others on suspicion of bankruptcy fraud. The probe into the failure in 2013 of the Chil Srl newspaper distribution and advertising firm, which was founded by the premier’s father, was opened last year and prosecutors have asked for an extension.

Angelina Jolie’s bravery in revealing she had undergone a double mastectomy has triggered a huge surge in the number of British women tested for breast cancer. The Daily Express says figures show that since she made her decision public in May 2013, thousands of lives may have been saved. Sample data from 12 clinic and nine regional genetics centres found there was a rise in referrals from 1,981 in 2012 to 4,847 last year.

Golf Week says one of the oldest and most prestigious golf clubs in the world, The Royal & Ancient Golf Club in the Scottish town of St Andrew’s, has voted to admit women members for the first time in its 260-year history. According to legend, St Andrew’s was the place where golf was invented as far back as the 12th century.

 

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