The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times of Malta features three stories with various aspects of John Dalli’s trip to the Bahamas. It also reports that Pope John Paul II is to be made a saint.
The Malta Independent, In-Nazzjon and l-orizzont give prominence to the prime minister’s warning that migrants will be pushed back.
In other stories, l-orizzont says a Cabinet meeting will be held in Marsaxlokk. In-Nazzjon says student nurses are disappointed they cannot register for government employment.
The overseas press
Fox News reports that in Cairo, crowds of Islamists gathered to cross a bridge over the Nile River after nightfall and clashed with Morsi opponents near Tahrir Square. The two sides hurled stones, bottles and pieces of paving slabs. Fighting between demonstrators and security forces also erupted in cities of southern Egypt, along the Suez Canal and in the Nile Delta as Morsi supporters marched on local government buildings.
The BBC says the leaders of Nicaragua and Venezuela have both said they are prepared to grant asylum to the fugitive American intelligence analyst Edward Snowden. Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro said it would give asylum to the intelligence leaker, who is believed to be holed up in a transit area of Moscow airport. Meanwhile Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said his country would do so “if circumstances permit”. Wikileaks said Snowden had applied to six additional countries on Friday.
Expesso reports Portugal’s coalition government appears to have survived a political crisis that threatened it would collapse as the country struggles to fulfill its tough international bail-out conditions. Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho has presented President Anibal Cavaco Silva with what he calls an agreed deal to keep his coalition intact. Portugal received a bailout worth more than €78 billion in May 2011, on the condition it implemented austerity measures.
Around 7,800 migrants and asylum-seekers landed on Italy's shores in the first half of 2013, UNHCR said Friday, while some 600 more arrived in Malta. Tribune de Genève quotes the United Nations refugee agency saying that most of the migrants came from North Africa, principally Libya. It said around 40 people have died trying to make the crossing from Tunisia to Italy so far this year. On Monday Pope Francis will visit the Sicilian island of Lampedusa to pray with migrants and local people and will throw a wreath into the sea to pay tribute to the migrants who die at sea.
Ansa reports Pope Francis has signed the decree needed for the canonisation of John Paul II and John XXII two of his most popular recent predecessors who left a great impact on the Catholic Church confirming recent speculation that it would take place at the same time. Vatican Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said the joint canonisation will most likely take place before the end of the year. He said the date would be set by a special meeting of cardinals, called a consistory, to be convened after the summer holidays.
Asia Times reports officials from North and South Korea are holding talks on reopening the Kaesong industrial complex. The two sides sat down together on Saturday at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone. Work at the factory park, a major source of income for the North, was halted in April amid high regional tensions.
The Daily Mirror says former England footballer Paul Gascoigne has been arrested over an alleged drunken assault at a railway station. He was held in a cell for 12 hours overnight but later released without charge. The 46-year-old reported assaulted a security guard and his former cwife Cheryl in the incident.