The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times says that the police fear that a joke led to a migrant’s death at sea.
The Malta Independent says the PM blasted Italy for shirking its responsibility to rescue migrants.
In-Nazzjon also quotes the prime minister criticizing Italy, saying that the closest port always had a responsibility to rescue migrants.
l-orizzzont leads with the threats about the power cable project made by an Italian junior minister following the row on the rescue of migrants.
The overseas press:
Al Jazeera reports that a high-level African Union delegation visiting Tripoli says Col Gaddafi has accepted its "road map" for a cease-fire with rebels, whom they would meet Monday. The African Union's road map calls for an immediate cease-fire, cooperation in opening channels for humanitarian aid and starting a dialogue between the rebels and the government. AU officials, however, made no mention of any requirement for Gadhafi to pull his troops out of cities as rebels have demanded.
The British-based representative of the Libyan opposition leadership, Guma al-Gamaty, has told the BBC that they would look carefully at the AU plan. However, he emphasised that any deal designed to keep Colonel Gaddafi or his sons in place would not be acceptable.
Germany has sharply rebuked Italy over its decision to grant thousands of Tunisian economic migrants temporary travel visas, allowing them to leave Italy for other European countries in the border-free Schengen Area. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich told Die Welt that Italy had to "regulate its own problems" and not force them on other countries. Together with Cyprus and Malta, Italy wants to activate a clause in EU law that would see the refugee burden shared among the EU member states. Friedrich argued against using the clause, which he said was originally created to accommodate the influx of migrants in the wake of conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
Meanwhile, in an interview with Welt am Sonntag, Bavaria’s interior minister Joachim Herrmann has said border controls on the German-Austrian border could be reinstated in a last-ditch effort to prevent the migrants from entering Germany. Herrmann called on Italy to get its house in order without resorting to issuing temporary visas.
Asharq Al-Awsat reports that gunmen have opened fire on crowds of anti-government demonstrators in the Syrian port city of Baniyas, killing four people. Security forces sealed off the city when protests broke out in several areas. Syria has prevented news media from reporting from Daraa and mobile phones lines there appeared to be cut.
Yemen Observer says tens of thousands of Yemeni protesters marched in the capital Sanaa on Sunday, calling for the international community to take action to stop their government's violent crackdowns against demonstrators in the country. The protest came a day after hundreds of people were injured when police used live ammunition, tear gas, batons and water cannons to break up an anti-government protest in Sanaa late Saturday night.
According to Al Ahram, Egyptian authorities have summoned the former President Hosni Mubarak for questioning over alleged misuse of public funds. Protesters in recent days have clashed with the military in Cairo’s Tahrir Square demanding that the former president, his family and associates face prosecution.
Meanwhile, former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has rejected accusations that he amassed wealth and property illegally during his 30 years as president. In his first speech since his ousting, broadcast on the pan-Arab news channel Al-Arabiya, Mubarak said he was willing to cooperate in any investigation to prove that he did not own any property abroad or have foreign bank accounts.
France 24 reports that UN and French helicopters in Ivory Coast have attacked forces and installations controlled by Laurent Gbagbo, who is refusing to step down after last year’s defeat in the general election. A UN spokesman said that the airstrikes were aimed at destroying Gbagbo’s heavy weaponry which had earlier been used to assault the UN headquarters in Abidjan.
La Republica says early results in Peru's presidential election give left-wing former army officer Ollanta Humala the lead, but without the 50 percent of votes needed to avoid a second round. With 18 per cent of votes counted Humala has 26.5 per cent, with former Prime Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on 24.5. Keiko Fujimori, daughter of disgraced ex-leader Alberto Fujimori, has 21 per cent. Alejandro Toledo was fourth with 15.6 per cent.