The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times of Malta says Olaf's case against John Dalli hinges on phone calls. It also quotes the prime minister telling the Labour general conference yesterday that he wants less red tape for expatriates and the issue of visas.
The Malta Independent quotes Prime Minister Joseph Muscat saying the challenge ahead is to start thinking as a government. It also reports how two policemen were wounded as the Italian government was sworn in.
In-Nazzjon says the decision by the prime minister to allow private work by ministers may lead to abuse.
l-orizzont quotes Dr Muscat saying this is the point of departure not the point of arrival for the Labour Party. The newspaper also interviews Lawrence Grech on the clerical child abuse claims. He notes the resignation of a Maltese whistleblower priest in Australia and says no one did the same in Malta.
The overseas press
Libya Herald reports that angry armed crowds surrounded the foreign and the home affairs ministries and Al Wataniya TV in Tripoli to push demands that officials who had worked for deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi's government be banned from senior positions in the new administration.
The Greek parliament has voted to adopt a law that provides for the dismissal of 15,000 civil servants as part of austerity measures imposed by the country's international creditors. Kathemerini says that after heated debate, 168 deputies voted for the bill, with 123 voting against and one abstaining. Around 800 people turned up outside parliament to protest against the measure in a demonstration called by trade union leaders who condemned “politicians who are dismantling the public service and destroying the welfare state”. Private union GSEE said the bill would only worsen Greece's dire unemployment rate, which currently stands at 27 per cent.
President Milos Zeman of the Czech Republic spoke out against the European Union help for Greece and Cyprus. In an interview with the Austrian Profile daily, Zeman said considered “inappropriate” the provision of financial assistance to Greece and Cyprus. He also called on Brussels technocrats not to deal with completely “absurd rules” like the sugar content in liqueurs, the wattage of electric bulbs, smokers, flavoured cigarettes and permissible distortion of bananas and cucumbers.
Italian news bulletins on Sunday were dominated not by the swearing in of the government after two months of political deadlock but by simultaneous mayhem outside the prime minister’s office as Luigi Preiti, 46, unemployed and apparently driven to desperation, opened fire, wounding two military police officers. RAI News says both are in stable condition and being treated in a Rome hospital and are said to be in stable condition. A pregnant woman was also mildly injured, grazed by a bullet as she was walking in the centre with her husband and son. After the swearing in, Prime Minister Enrico Letta met with ministers in a first, scheduled, cabinet meeting, in the afternoon. The government will face a confidence vote in Parliament this week.
Radio Tunis reports an unemployed 23-year-old Tunisian has set himself on fire in front of the town hall in Sidi Bouzid, a city symbol of the revolution of 2011 which triggered the Arab Spring. His condition is reported to be critical. Relatives said that recently the young man had more often repeated he was fed up with unemployment and poverty.
According to Times of India, a six-year-old girl has been raped in a public toilet in Delhi just days after the brutal sexual assault of a five-year-old in the Indian capital. The victim is said to be in a stable condition in hospital following surgery. Twenty-two suspects have been rounded up by police.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Michael McCaul has told Fox News the FBI was investigating to determine whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing received overseas training that helped them carry out the attack. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is charged with joining with his older brother, Tamerlan, who's now dead, in setting off the shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs, triggered by a remote detonator used in remote-control toys. Dzhokhar has been charged in connection with the April 15 bomb blasts that killed three people and wounded 264.
An EU-led court in Kosovo is expected to deliver its verdict today in the trial of seven people accused of illegal organ harvesting and transplants at a Pristina clinic. AFP says the panel of judges has heard often chilling testimony from over 80 witnesses, both organ donors and recipients, in more than 100 hearings since the trial began in 2011. At least 30 illegal kidney removals and transplants were carried out at the clinic in 2008. The donors were recruited from poor Eastern European and Central Asian countries who were promised about €15,000 for their organs, while recipients, mainly Israelis, would pay up to €100,000 each.
The Irish Independent reports a terminally-ill Irish woman will take her landmark case for assisted suicide to Europe if she loses her appeal. Ireland’s highest court will rule later today if multiple sclerosis sufferer Marie Fleming can choose to die peacefully at home in the arms of her partner Tom Curran without leaving him with a threat of jail. The former university lecturer took her appeal to the seven-judge Supreme Court after losing a legal challenge at the High Court in Dublin. Curran admitted he is prepared for the worst and revealed his partner will consider taking her case to Europe if defeated again.
The Irish Examiner says record-breaking twins Amy and Katie Jones have been born an incredible born 87 days apart. Mother Maria Jones-Elliott went into labour four months early, giving birth to Amy – but Katie did not arrive until three months later. Their incredible births will now become a Guinness World Record for the “longest interval between the birth of twins”. The previous record was 84 days.