The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers today.

Times of Malta reports that the government issued an €85 million guarantee to one of its companies so it could buy Enemalta’s petroleum division.

l-orizzont leads with evidence given in libel proceedings instituted by minister Konrad Mizzi against The Malta Independent, where a reporter said the heading and leading sentence of a story she wrote had been changed by one of the editors.

The Malta Independent gives prominence to comments by Opposition leader Simon Busuttil that one could insult God, but one could not insult Justice Minister Owen Bonnici. 

In-Nazzjon also leads with Simon Busuttil's speech in parliament yesterday, saying the government is stifling freedom of expression. 

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