These are the main stories featured in today's Maltese newspapers:

Times of Malta reports that the Planning Authority is on Monday expected to approve an application for the construction of a new fireworks factory just a stone’s throw away from two similar complexes that blew up in 2010 and 2012, claiming 10 lives. The second story says Malta does not meet minimum US
standards for the elimination of human trafficking, but significant efforts have been made, according to a State Department report.

On a lighter note, In-Nazzjon reports the national sports conference being organised by the Nationalist Party as well as the inauguration of the volleyball marathon in aid of Dar tal-Providenza. 

The Malta Independent reports a prominent lawyer saying that the police had failed to do their job after rapper Wiz Khalifa published a video of himself smoking a joint in Malta, while a number of revellers attending the Isle of MTV concert had been arrested for the same 'crime'. It also reports the academic Clare Vassallo had quit her post in the National Council of Women in protest at its position on the morning-after pill. 

L-orizzont quotes the chairman of the National Commission for Higher Education denying that the government had put pressure to issue a licence for the American University of Malta.