The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta says Simon Busuttil described his meeting with Sai Mizzi in Shanghai as bizarre.
The Malta Independent says an EU study has found that a review of the Dublin system is long overdue. The Dublin system governs the allocation of migrants.
In-Nazzjon says 600 families are awaiting compensation under the home ownership scheme which those close to Muscat get richer.
l-orizzont reports that ratings agency Standards and Poor is 'positive' about Enemalta.
The overseas press
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has reshuffled his cabinet, removing ministers who voted against reforms necessary for a rescue deal. Kathimerini says that in a bid to show international creditors he was in full control, Tsipras ditched Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, the head of Syriza’s hardline faction that has consistently demanded an exit from the eurozone. Nine changes were made overall. The new members of the cabinet are scheduled to be sworn in later today.
Le Soir quotes a senior EU official saying a way had been found to get Greece more than €7 billion in short-term cash. The money would come from funds in the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism and should reach Greece by Monday – in time for the Greeks to make a €4.2 billion payment due to the European Central Bank.
NRC Handelsblad reports emotional services have been held in Europe to mark the first anniversary of the MH17 air disaster over eastern Ukraine, as calls mounted for a UN-backed tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the tragedy.
According to Sky News, a spokesperson for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has voiced disappointment after the Sun newspaper published images of her as a child in which she appears to be giving the Nazi salute. The images, featured in a front-page story, came from a home movie shot in the early 1930s.
Ansa says a bus carrying 19 asylum seekers and escorted by police in riot gear pushed past protesting local residents and extremists from the far-right Casapound political group to arrive at the doors of a migrant reception centre in Rome. The bus was pelted water bottles and other objects thrown by anti-immigrant protesters.
Cyprus Mail reports European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has told the Cypriot parliament the long-divided country had no better chance than now to strike a UN-brokered peace deal. Juncker called the current UN-mediated peace a “crucial moment for Cyprus history”.
Al Ayyam says a suicide car bombing in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province killed at least 80 people gathered at a marketplace to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Iraqi police officials said at least 50 people were also wounded in the attack in the town of Khan Beni Saad.
Daily Star quotes a member of the Kurdish militia YPG saying IS militants used poison gas in attacks conducted in late June in Syria. Says. The militiaman added that the gas and ‘was used in the area controlled by the Kurds, in the province of Hasaka, in the northeast of the country.
The Islamic State jihadist group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has ordered its militants not to issue propaganda videos showing the entire beheadings of their captives, pan- Arab daily Al-Quds al-Arabi reports. The UK-based paper cited pro-IS media sources as saying al-Baghdadi has ruled that only the initial cutting of the victim’s throat and the final placing of their head on their body may be shown in the beheading videos.
USA Today says a stuffed toy helped save a five-year-old US girl after she fell out of a third-storey apartment window. Police in Colorado said she held on to the toy and it cushioned her fall. Police said the girl was playing in her room when she fell backwards out of her bedroom window, dropping about three stories to the ground, ending with only a broken arm. The toy was a Minion – small, yellow creatures popularised by the animated film “Despicable Me”.
The pope’s heliport inside the Vatican will be made available to the nearby Bambino Gesù children’s hospital for emergencies in Francis’ latest move to put areas of the Holy See to use for the benefit of the community, including showers and barbers for the homeless in St Peter’s colonnade. L’Osservatore Romano reports Pope Francis felt “joy” and “expressed his goodwill for an agreement that will be of great help to the children,”.
The president of the Bolivian football federation, Carlos Chavez, has been arrested as part of a national corruption investigation. The BBC says inquiry was triggered by a wide-ranging criminal investigation by the US Justice Department into alleged bribery and kick-back schemes at FIFA. Chavez is also the treasurer of the South American Federaion.