Deutsche Welle reports European leaders will hold talks with Ankara over ways to help stem the migrant crisis. The summit, scgheduled around the end of November or early December, was announced during the EU-Africa Summit held in Malta. In exchange for assistance, Ankara has demanded €3 billion in aid from the EU.  

Ansa quotes Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi saying the Malta summit had placed Africa at the centre of the EU agenda, adding that now “the glass is more than half full”. European leaders agreed to create a €1.8-billion-fund to help 23 African countries tackle “the root causes of illegal migration”. EU member states have so far offered to contribute €81.27 million to the Africa fund. 

Euronews reports European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said after the summit that if the EU’s refugee resettlement programme continues at the current pace, “we’ll finish in 2101”. Only 130 refugees from Italy and Greece were taken by the rest of the EU countries and “at this rate, the relocation of 160,000 persons will be completed on January 1, 2101”. Juncker said he was “totally dissatisfied” with the rate of resettlement. 

Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings that struck a southern Beirut suburb, killing at least 43 people and wounding some 180 others. An Nahar quotes an ISIS statement saying “soldiers of the Caliphate” had carried out the attack on a stronghold of the militant Shiite movement Hezbollah. The White House has condemned the “horrific terrorist” bomb blasts. 

Afghan Post says large-scale protests have spread to several Afghan cities a day after thousands marched on the presidential palace in Kabul to accuse the government of incompetence in dealing with the Islamic State and failing to protect the persecuted Hazara minority. The outrage exploded after Islamic State militants beheaded seven Hazaras, including this nine-year-old girl. 

The Sun says four men have been arrested in raids across England over fears an ISIS-supporting terror cell was plotting to kidnap British diplomats in an attempt to free Norway-based fundamentalist preacher listed as a terrorist by the US and the UN from a Norwegian jail. The men were detained after Italian officers swooped on a European jihadist network in a move described as “the most important international police operation in Europe in 20 years”. 

Science reports climate experts have warned that a major glacier in Greenland, that contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 50 centimetres, is breaking up at an ever-faster rate. The report that part of the of the Zachariae Isstrom glacier had broken free and was now being melted by rising air temperatures from above and warmer ocean currents below.  

Meanwhile, a study by the American group Climate Control warns that soon the sea would flood most cities around the world. According to the study, published in Nature, by the end of the century, global temperatures could rise by 4°C, leading to global weather disasters and exposing to irreversible risks between 470 and 760 million people. The group pins the blame on human activity and excessive CO2 emissions.  

The New York Times reports UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has congratulated Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi on her party’s election performance, but warned that “much hard work” lay ahead to build democracy. Ban described Sunday’s poll as a “significant achievement” in Myanmar’s transition away from military rule. 

Dhakar News reports doctors at a Bangladesh hospital are treating a baby girl born with two heads, and is now being treated for breathing difficulties. The girl has “two fully developed heads, is eating with two mouths and breathing with two noses”, according to her father. Tests showed she only has one set of vital organs. 

Ohio Post says a Cleveland surgical team expects to be the first in the United States to transplant a uterus, aiming to help women who were born without or whose organs were damaged or removed. Despite the risks of surgery and anti-rejection drugs, eight women have already volunteered for screening.  

Egypt’s security forces are hunting for several gunmen who opened fire on a church near Cairo from a motorbike, setting off a gun battle with police, a source told Adnkronos. Attacks on Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority have increased over the past decade as Copts have long complained over being treated as second-class citizens. 

CNN reports a Secret Service officer assigned to the White House has been arrested after he was caught in a sting sending naked pictures of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl. 

Al Arabiya reports Saudi custom officials at the border with the United Arab Emirates have caught a man with 48,000 cans of Heineken – all disguised as Pepsi Cola. The Washington Post says this isn’t the first time smugglers have gone to inventive measures to get alcohol into Saudi Arabia. Some months ago, a Saudi man was caught on the border with Bahrain with 12 bottles of liquor sewed into his trousers, and Saudi authorities recently said they found more than 19,000 bottles of alcoholic drinks hidden in a shipment of rice and tomato paste. Those caught smuggling or consuming alcohol in Saudi Arabia face long prison sentences and floggings.