The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Sunday Times carries an interview with Richard Cachia Caruana who said that Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando 'aimed to inflict maximum damage'.
The Malta Independent on Sunday quotes Franco Debono saying on Dissett that the prime minister supports him to stand on the party ticket again.
MaltaToday says a foreign millionaire who is being sought in a murder inquiry in Austria is living in Malta despite police objections,
Illum quotes Robert Arrigo who says he disagrees with policies which condemn. He spoke after the PN Executive condemned three MPs.
Il-Mument refers to an interview with the Sunday Times and says Joseph Muscat coud not give a straight answer on whether Jason Micallef would stand for election. In january he said he would not stand.
It-Torca says €5.6m worth of medicines are dumped every year. It also says that Cachia Caruana's income remains a mystery.
KullHadd says Cachia Caruana is to leave his post in mid-July. It also says that Franco Debono may seek a seat in the centre of the House if the PN condemnation against him is not lifted.
The overseas press
European Union President Herman Van Rompuy wants member states to look at changing the age of retirement to take into account longer life expectancy, Germany's Welt am Sonntag reported this morning. He told the paper it was important to not simply make recommendations to the 27-member states about reforming their retirement systems within a fixed time and in a way that meets fixed objective reforms. “We cannot leave each country to do as it pleased,” he said, stressing that limits had to be put in place. Van Rompuy said the subject would be one of the issues on the table at the two-day European summit, which starts Thursday in Brussels.
Meanwhile, AFP says German Chancellor Angela Merkel would meet French President François Hollande in Paris on Wednesday ahead of the crucial EU summit. Hollande's office said in a statement the two leaders would discuss the upcoming EU summit and "exchanges" between the two countries. Major European countries' leaders have been on shuttle diplomacy ahead of the June 28-29 EU summit. During a meeting in Rome on Friday, Merkel, Hollande, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy endorsed a €130-billion package, or one percent of Europe's gross domestic product, to stimulate growth in Europe.
Kathimerini says Greece is demanding a thorough re-negotiation of its international bail-out. It wants to suspend tax and pay cuts, hold public lay-offs, increase unemployment benefits and more time to cut its. Correspondents argued the proposals were likely to run into strong opposition at a European Union summit next week. Eurozone partners have offered adjustments but no radical rewrite of the bailout conditions.
Al Jazeera reports that tens of thousands of Egyptians have spent the night in Cairo’s Tahrir Square ahead of today’s long-delayed declaration of results of last week-end’s presidential run-off. Many of the protesters are supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi. Elsewhere there had been rallies backing the other candidate, former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq. They have both claimed victory and say they will appoint unity governments.
Al Ayyam quotes medical officials in Palestine saying more than 20 people, including a baby, were injured in a series of air raids by Israel on Hamas security targets in Gaza “in response to rocket fire aimed at Israel”. The raids came as Palestinian militants stepped up rocket fire, wounding an Israeli man.
Al Arabiya reports more than 100 people were killed on Saturday in violence across Syria, as president Bashar al-Assad formed a new cabinet with key posts unchanged. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 102 people were killed in violence across the country as regime forces stepped up attacks on towns. The Britain-based monitoring group said two-thirds of the dead were civilians. Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross condemned the killing of a Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteer, in the fourth such incident in the country's deadly unrest.
ABC says Ecuador has recalled its ambassador to Britain Ana Alban to discuss what to do about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent four nights at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London as his asylum bid is considered. He has asked for political asylum as he seeks to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex-abuse allegations and fears Stockholm will turn him over to the United States. President Rafael Correa says his country will make the final decision on Mr Assange's asylum bid. Ecuadorian envoy met with British authorities on Wednesday. Assange says he fears he would end up in the hands of the US authorities, which he says want to try him for divulging US secrets.
Ultima Ora quotes the new president of Paraguay, Federico Franco, defending the removal of office of his predecessor Fernando Lugo, saying the senate action was not a coup and that there had been no break with democracy. Lugo. The 39-4 vote saw Lugo impeached in a case stemming from his handling of clashes between farmers and police last week in which at least 17 people died. The move has drawn criticism from governments in Latin America, including the presidents of Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina. Riot police and military police officers on horseback moved in to control the crowds in Asuncion, who gathered to protest at the impeachment trial.
El Universal says 14 mutilated bodies had been found in a lorry outside a supermarket in the northern Mexican town of Mante. The body parts belonged to 10 men and four women and the threatening message left with the bodies suggested the killings were part on an on-going gang war between rival drug cartels which has since left more than 55,000 people dead since President Calderon declared war on the cartels nearly six years ago. This week, Mexico was left red-faced after authorities admitted they had mistakenly claimed to have captured a son of the country's most-wanted man, drug lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.