The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta quotes Justice Minister Owen Bonnici saying a reform of appointments to the judiciary will be part of a raft of changes proposed by the Bonello Commission. It also says the new university investor had wanted a bigger site.
The Malta Independent gives prominence to comments to the Associated Press by the director of MOAS, Martin Xuereb, that there is a lot of money in irregular migration.
In-Nazzjon quotes Simon Busuttil saying the PN is the force of reason in the controversy over the siting of the new university in the south of Malta.
l-orizzont leads with yesterday's address by the prime minister, saying the government was giving the south a university instead of waste.
The overseas press
CNN reports nine people have been killed and 19 others have been injured, in a battle between rival motorbike gangs at a restaurant in the city of Waco, Texas. Police had been monitoring a meeting of up to five gangs who had gathered to settle disagreements when a fight broke out and escalated.
The Iraqi city of Ramadi has fallen to Islamic States militants following a fierce battle. Al Ayyam quotes Iraqis officials saying government troops had withdrawn. USA Today says the US Central Command was not yet ready to concede the city to the Islamic State, saying that Ramadi remains “contested”.
Libyan authorities have arrested 400 illegal migrants, including several pregnant women, as they prepared to board boats for Europe. AFP quotes a spokesman for a the Tripoli-based government that combats illegal migration saying most of the migrants were Somalis and Ethiopians and were arrested as they were getting ready to board boats in Tajura, east of the capital.
Germany’s NDR reports that prosecutors in Lower Saxony are looking into the Hanover federal police for allegedly mistreating prisoners and documenting the violence in a series of mobile phone photos and text messages. In an exclusive, the radio station has detailed at least two incidents of official violence against migrants in custody. Prosecutors are investigating the case.
New Straits Times reports Malaysia has launched high-level talks with its neighbours to try to solve the deepening problem of refugees stranded in boats off Southeast Asia's shores. Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman met with his counterpart from Bangladesh, Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, ahead of a meeting with the Indonesian and Thai foreign ministers scheduled for Wednesday. However, there appeared to be no quick solution to the crisis.
Meanwhile, Jakarta Post says Indonesian authorities have warned they will soon run out of the funds to care for hundreds of rescued migrants, saying they have less than two weeks' worth of food and medical supplies to support them. At least 1,350 asylum seekers have landed in Indonesia's Aceh province in the past two weeks.
Al Ahram reports six men with alleged ties to a terrorist group were hanged in Egypt after being sentenced in a military tribunal. The men were found guilty of planning terrorist operations, targeting security forces, and being members of a terrorist-designated organization. The military court said they involved in an attack on a military checkpoint that left six Egyptian soldiers dead and another on Cairo's security directorate in 2014.
Kabul Post says a Taliban suicide car bomber has attacked a convoy from the European Union police training mission near the Afghan capital's international airport, killing at least three people, including a Briton. The attack in Kabul comes amid a stepped-up Taliban campaign that saw its militants attack a guesthouse days earlier in Kabul, killing 14 people, including nine foreigners.
Phnom Penh Post reports Cambodia has deported a fugitive Russian tycoon who was living there illegally after he was accused of embezzling $175 million ($153 million) in his homeland. Accompanied by Russian authorities, Sergei Polonsky was put on a flight to Moscow via Vietnam.
A combination of two drugs – lumacaftor and ivacaftor – has shown promise toward improving the health of people with the most common form of the incurable lung disease known as cystic fibrosis, according to the results of two international clinical trials published in the New England Journal of Medicine. About 75,000 people in Europe, North America and Australia suffer from cystic fibrosis, which is caused by genetic mutations. A final decision by the FDA is expected July 5.