The following are the top items in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Sunday Times quotes John Dalli saying there had been no need for him to inform Brussels about his Bermuda trip. It also says that the Home Affairs Minister will no longer attend interviews for Security Service recruits.
The Malta Independent says John Dalli has retained his Mater Dei Hospital post after explaining his Bahamas trip to the prime minister. It also says that a counter-productive law on legal assistance is set for review.
Malta Today says Falzon Brothers have been released on police bail after investigation into contraband fuel. It also says Joseph Muscat is more trusted than Simon Busuttil, even though his ratings have slipped since last month.
Illum reports that Mater Dei Hospital equipment was lent free of charge to private hospitals.
Torca reports that there will be an extensive review of Arriva bus routes after the summer.
Il-Mument claims interference in employment interviews by Evarist Bartolo without him being actually present for interviews.
Kullhadd says PN criticism of the Security Service was a serious slip by the party, and worse used to happen under the PN government. It also says that a dinner for canvassers of Louis Galea had been prepared at the St Vincent de Paul Home kitchen.
The overseas press
CBS News quotes officials saying they have accounted for all but one of the 307 people on board an Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul that crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport, killing at least two people. The crash left the runway littered with debris, and forced passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety. At least 181 people have been transported to area hospitals, 49 with serious injuries.
Globe & Mail says 60 people are still missing after a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in the middle of a small Canadian town in the province of Quebec, leaving at least one person dead. Up to 1,000 people were forced to evacuate after the explosion which sent a fireball and black smoke into the air and destroyed dozens of buildings. Officials say four tanker cars blew up after the train, which had 73 cars filled with petroleum products, came off the rails.
Voice of Nigeria says more than 40 people, including about 30 children, have died in an suspected Islamist militant attack on a school in the north-east. Survivors say the militants doused a dormitory in petrol and set it alight as students slept at the secondary school in Yobe state. Authorities say the attackers were Islamists from Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgent group, which has been behind a spate of school attacks in the region.
Egypt's new president says pro-reform leader Mohamed Elbaradei has not yet been appointed as interim prime minister despite earlier reports. A spokesman for interim President Adly Mansour told Cairo Radio consultations were continuing. News of ElBaradei’s appointment had been criticised by the Salafist Nour Party, which said it would not work with him and caused anger among supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi, who want to see him returned to power.
Radical cleric Abu Qatada has been deported from the UK to Jordan to stand trial on terrorism charges. The BBC says his plane left RAF Northolt early this morning to take him to his home country, which he has not visited in 20 years. The legal battle to deport Abu Qatada began in 2001 and has cost the UK more than £1.7 million (€2 million). His deportation was finally able to proceed after the UK and Jordan signed a treaty agreeing that evidence obtained through torture would not be used against him.
Bolivia's President Evo Morales has joined those of Nicaragua and Venezuela indicating their willingness to offer political asylum to the fugitive American intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, who is believed to be holed up in a transit area of Moscow airport. The Associated Press quotes Morales as saying he was making the offer as a protest against the US and European nations accusing them of temporarily blocking his flight home from a Moscow summit because they suspected his might have Snowden on board.
In the first part of efforts to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with the European Union, ministers will announce plans to claw back the powers. The Sunday Telegraph has learnt Home Secretary Theresa May will give MPs details of proposals to opt out of 133 EU measures covering justice, home affairs and the police – including the controversial European Arrest Warrant – by next spring. The move follows last week’s unanimous Commons vote in favour of moves to hold an “in-out” referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU by 2017.
According to International Business Times, North and South Korea have agreed in principle to reopen a joint industrial complex shut down amid high military tensions. Officials agreed to “revive operations of the firms” at the Kaesong industrial complex “when ready”, according to an agreement signed by both sides after marathon talks held near the border through Saturday and Sunday. The complex, built in 2004 about 10 kilometres north of the border as a rare symbol of inter-Korea cooperation, had previously remained largely resilient to turbulence in inter-Korea relations.
The Irish Examiner reports more than 35,000 anti-abortion activists marched Saturday through Dublin to demand that the Irish government scrap plans to legalise terminations for women in life-threatening pregnancies. Bearing rosary beads and placards declaring "Kill the bill! Not the child", demonstrators from across Ireland, a predominantly Catholic island of 6.5 million, marched for two hours through the capital to Leinster House, the parliament building, where lawmakers next week are expected pass the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill. Speakers demanded that the government put its bill to a national referendum.
A man has been arrested in northern Brazil after a mob decapitated a soccer referee who fatally stabbed an amateur player over his refusal to leave the field. Reuters quotes the police saying referee Octavio da Silva, 20, stabbed player Josenir dos Santos, 30, on June 30 after dos Santos refused to heed his order to leave. A mob then turned on da Silva, killing him before severing his head in the remote town of Pio XII. Police spokesman Kena Souza says a 27-year-old man was arrested on July 2.