The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Sunday Times of Malta and the Malta Independent on Sunday report the election of Mario de Marco and Beppe Fenech Adami as PN deputy leaders.
The Sunday Times of Malta also reports on growing momentum within the European Popular Party calling for the removal of OLAF investigator Giovanni Kessler for the way he conducted his investigation of John Dalli.
MaltaToday says Gozo Channel has been given legal advice not to seek the recovery of stolen cash since it is difficult to establish the exact amount.
Illum features comments by former Nationalist MP Jean Pierre Farrugia who says he will no longer be forced to vote in any election.
It-Torca says political and commercial interests delayed the interconnector project.
In KullHadd John Dalli speaks of a conspiracy against him, with Swedish Match having framed him in the tobacco case.
Il-Mument says a new generation has taken over at the PN.
The overseas press
French police are still searching for an attacker who stabbed a French soldier in a neck whilst he was patrolling La Defense area of Paris on Saturday. Le Parisien reports the attacker was possibly of North African origin.
Meanwhile, in the UK The Sunday Times says new evidence reveals the British authorities missed clues that could have prevented the Woolwich attack while several British newspapers report of the suspects was arrested on a terror charge in Kenya in 2010.
The major battle in the war against extremism is being fought over the internet by elite teams stationed behind keyboards and engaged in winning the hearts and minds of would-be terrorists. An Independent on Sunday investigation in the aftermath of the Woolwich attack has revealed that more than 2,000 websites promoting terrorism had been taken offline since 2010 by the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism internet referral unit. Experts are now targeting extremist websites to create “counter-narrative” messages from survivors of terrorism.
The Boston Globe reports thousands of runners and their supporters took to the streets of Boston to complete last month's marathon that many were forced to abandon after bombs exploded near the finish line. Explosions near the finish line killed three people and wounded more than 260 on April 15.
Al Jazeera says demonstrators in 436 cities in 52 countries have held rallies as part of a global protest against seed giant Monsanto and the genetically modified food it produces. They waved signs that read “Real Food 4 Real People” and “Label GMOs, It's Our Right to Know”. The practice to insert genes into seeds for corn, soybeans and other crops to give the plant resistance to pesticides and herbicides has been upheld by the US Supreme Court. However, GMO crops are restricted in other places of the world.
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group has vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a “dark period”. Al bawaba reports that in a televised address, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah also said Hezbollah members were fighting in Syria against Islamic radicals who posed a danger to Lebanon, and pledged that his group would not allow Syrian militants to control areas along the Lebanese border. He pledged that Hezbollah would turn the tide of the conflict in Assad's favour, and stay as long as necessary to do so.
Dawn says a teacher and 16 students were burned to death in eastern Pakistan when a minibus taking children, aged between 6 and 12, to school suddenly caught fire. An unspecified number of children were injured, some listed in critical condition. Police said a short-circuit next to a leaking petrol tank started the blaze. Earlier they blamed an exploding natural gas cylinder. The bus was powered with both types of fuel.
According to Moscow Times, a female suicide bomber has injured at least 11 police officers and civilians in the southern Russian region of Dagestan. Police said the bomber blew herself up on the central square in the provincial capital, Makhachkala. Since 2000, at least two dozen female suicide bombers, most of them from the Caucasus, have carried out terrorist attacks in Russian cities and aboard trains and planes. The bombers are often called “black widows” in Russia because many of them are the wives, or other relatives, of militants killed by security forces.
La Sicilia says an Italian priest who stirred consciences with his anti-mafia preaching and was gunned down by mobsters has been honoured by the Vatican as a martyr. The Rev Giuseppe “Pino” Puglisi was beatified in a ceremony in Palermo, where he worked in a mobster-infested, poor neighbourhood. He was killed in 1993, a few months after Pope John Paul II visited Sicily and urged priests to rally the faithful against organised crime.
Ansa reports thousands gathered for the funeral in Genoa of Don Andrea Gallo, the popular Catholic priest who founded a drug-rehabilitation centre, promoted LGBT rights, and once called for a gay pope. Don Gallo, 84, was known as the "street priest" for his community work.