The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta quotes Joseph Muscat warning that abuse of migrant workers by employers must end.
The Malta Independent reports that prison warders have complained that their complaints about threats by inmates are not followed up.
In-Nazzjon says the government will hold a reception at the Upper Barrakka at the same time as the PN will hold a mass meeting near Parliament.
l-orizzont reports how a Libyan man injured six people in Paceville early yesterday.
The overseas press
Deutsche Welle reports Germany, Austria and the Czeck Republic have tightened border controls following the arrival in Munich and elsewhere of record numbers of refugees. German officials have been instructed to carry out identity checks on the border with Austria.
As Germany moved to restore “order” to the chaotic inflow, Kathemarini says the death toll continues to soar with 34 refugees, including four babies and 11 boys and girls, drowning yesterday when their wooden boat overturned and sank off a Greek island. It appeared to mark the worst loss of life in those waters since the migrant crisis began.
EU interior and justice ministers meet in Brussels later today in a bid to hammer out a united policy on handling the huge number of people currently arriving in Europe. Le Monde reports the ministers will face a huge challenge working out a common approach to coping with the situation. Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania are all resisting the implementation of the relocation programme.
Homeland Security committee chairman Michael McCaul saying plans to attack Pope Francis during his US visit have already been thwarted. Less than 10 days before the Pope’s visit to Washington DC, New York and Philadelphia, McCaul said on ABC’s “This Week” that he was “concerned” about the Pope’s safety.
The Egyptian Gazette reports at least a dozen Mexican tourists and their guides have been killed in what is reported to be an accidental attack on their convoy by Egyptian security forces. A statement from the Egyptian interior ministry said that while police and armed forces were pursuing “terrorist elements” they accidentally engaged with a tourist convoy. The ministry statement claimed the tourists should not have been in that area and their presence there was “illegal”.
The Jerusalem Post says the Jordanian government has condemned Israel for what it terms as the “storming” of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israeli police raided the plaza outside Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque on Sunday in what they said was a bid to head off Palestinian attempts to disrupt visits by Jews and foreign tourists on the eve of the Jewish New Year.
Le Matin reports the rival governments of Tobruk and Tripoli have reached “consensus” on the main points of a political agreement to create a government of peace in Libya. UN envoy Bernardino Leon said in Morocco that the two sides were able to “overcome their differences” on the main issues and the text should be ready for signing by September20.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has said on his personal Twitter account that veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn’s election to the Labour leadership made the main opposition party a threat to “Britain’s national security, our economic security and your family’s security”. Meanwhile, more than 15,000 people have joined the UK Labour party in the 24 hours since Corbyn was elected leader.
VOA News says the governor of California has declared a state of emergency as thousands of people rushed to escape a massive wildfire charging across the tinder-dry Sierra Nevada foothills and another out-of-control fire that broke out in Northern California, injuring four firefighters. Jerry Brown said the fires had destroyed buildings and threatened hundreds of others.
According to The New York Times, when in New York for the UN General Assembly at the end of the month, President Obama will be the first American president not to stay at the Waldorf Astoria for fear of having his room bugged. The hotel was last year acquired for $2 billion by the Anbang Insurance Group led by a grandson of Deng Xiaoping. The president has opted for the less known Lotte New York Palace, owned by a more reassuring South Korean ally.
Huffington Post says the Japanese video game company Nintendo has celebrated the 30th anniversary of Super Mario, one of the best-known characters in video game history, at an event in Tokyo where artists played his theme music to fans dressed up as the hyperactive plumber. Since Mario first hit the screens under his own name on September 13, 1985, Nintendo has sold more than 310 million units.
Tennis: Fox News reports Novak Djokovic clinched his third Grand Slam title of 2015 and tenth career major with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 triumph over favourite Roger Federer in the US Open final. The defeat shattered 34-year-old Federer’s bid to become the oldest US Open champion in 45 years and left him marooned on 17 Grand Slam titles, the last of which came at Wimbledon in 2012.