The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times says protesters at the Sette Giugno ceremony had to be dragged away by the police yesterday. It also says that a man is being held by the police in connection with the murder of an Ivorian man near the Hal Far open centre. The suspect is also from the Ivory Coast.
The Malta Independent quotes a report on poverty which warns that unless society is careful, poverty could return. It also quotes comments by Gozo Bishop Mario Grech that people must be free of mortal sin to receive the Eucharist.
In-Nazzjon quotes the Speaker saying greater appreciation is needed of the work of Parliament and MPs. It also reports that the the police have instituted court action against a man over a murder that took place 26 years ago. A court will be asked to assess his mental health.
l-orizzont says two BWSC sub-contractors are being accused of corruption in Iraq in the oil for food scandal.
The overseas press:
Börzen Zeitung reports that the International Monetary Fund has told the eurozone bloc to speed up budget cuts or risk eroding the confidence of financial markets.
The Financial Times said the IMF report came as Germany unveiled details of austerity measures worth 80bn euros. And British Prime Minister David Cameron warned that dealing with the deficit would be "unavoidably tough" and affect "our whole way of life". An emergency budget detailing the cuts is being held in two weeks.
The European edition of The Wall Street Journal reported that further sovereign debt worries and the possibility of a double-dip recession consumed European markets on Monday. Hungary has been the latest country to stir investor concern after government officials compared the country's fiscal position with Greece late last week.
The Irish Times reports Irish activist and Nobel peace prize-winner Mairead Maguire has accused the Israeli government of committing "slow genocide" against the Palestinian people. After landing in Dublin, Ms Maguire, whose ship was blocked from delivering aid supplies to Gaza, said the people of Gaza did not have enough basic things for their needs.
Al Ahram announces Egypt has said it would leave its border with the Palestinian territory open indefinitely for humanitarian aid and restricted travel. With international pressure building to ease the three-year blockade, an Egyptian security official said sealing off Hamhas-ruled Gaza had only bred more militancy. The move restores a link to the outside world for at least some of Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinians. Israel has not publicly protested the Egyptian move, but officials declined to comment Monday.
Le Soir reports that activists said another aid flotilla could be making its way to Gaza within weeks. Rory Byrne, of the Brussels-based European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza said the people of Gaza needed aid.
The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel declared it would not let Iranian ships sail to Gaza after the Iranian Red Crescent announced it would send two vessels to the region in the coming week. It quotes a diplomatic official saying Iran had a proven track record of supplying dangerous weapons to Hamas and Hizbullah and, "Obviously, any shipment from Iran to Gaza would be a major concern."
Al Quds al Arabi says an Israeli naval patrol claims to have killed at least four Palestinian commando divers off the Gaza coast. A spokesman claimed the men were on their way to carry out a terror attack. In a message sent to reporters in Gaza, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades,a violent offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction, said the four men killed were members of its marine unit who were training in Gaza's waters.
The Washington Post reports 10 NATO service members, seven of them American, were killed in separate attacks on Monday on the deadliest day of the year for foreign forces in Afghanistan. The bloodshed comes as insurgents step up bombings and other attacks ahead of a major NATO operation in the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.
Times of India says a court Monday convicted seven former senior employees of Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary of "death by negligence" for their roles in the 1984 leak of toxic gas that killed an estimated 15,000 people in the world's worst industrial disaster. While the judge did not explain his negligence ruling against the seven, India's Central Bureau of Investigationsaid the plant was not following proper safety procedures before the disaster.
According to El Tiempo, Mexico police say they have found 55 bodies in an abandoned mine that appears to have been used as a mass grave by drugs gangs.
The Washington Post says a former American CIA agent, who served as CIA station chief in Algeria, has pleaded guilty to raping a Muslim woman after rendering her unconscious on US Embassy property in Algiers in 2008.