The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times of Malta says cruise chiefs are angry over plans to tax them for operating casinos in Maltese waters.
l-orizzont reports how SNC Lavalin may sell its 36% stake in Malta International Airport.
The Malta Independent says district health clinics are to be strengthened. It also says that a man who was missing for several days said he did so to protest over injustices he is suffering.
In-Nazzjon quotes a PN statement saying that Prime Minister Muscat has approved ministerial interference in a public inquiry.
The overseas press
British authorities are facing increasing pressure to explain why they used anti-terror laws to detain the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who worked with US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden and has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency. O Globo says Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota has told his UK counterpart William Hague that the detention of David Miranda, a Brazilian national, at Heathrow Airport was unjustified. Miranda also had electronic equipment confiscated. The US has denied being behind the detention.
The Associated Press quotes Egyptian security officials and state television say the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has been detained. Officials say Mohammed Badie was captured early today in an apartment in the eastern Cairo district of Nasr City, where supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi held a six-week sit-in protest that was cleared by security forces last Wednesday. Meanwhile, state prosecutors brought new charges against Morsi on allegations of inciting violence.
Egypt’s state television station, Nile TV, says interim President Adly Mansour has announced three days of national mourning for the 25 police officers who were killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants in the Sinai peninsula. The police were shot as they left two buses which had been hit by rockets.
An Egyptian court has ordered the release of former president Hosni Mubarak pending trial on corruption charges. Legal sources told DPA that Mubarak could be released within 24 hours. The former president arrested in 2011 two months after a popular uprising forced him from office, was sentenced to life imprisonment last year for complicity in the killing of protesters during the uprising, but won a retrial in January.
Reuters reports British warships arrived in Gibraltar on Monday for scheduled exercises amid tensions with Spain over fishing around the British Mediterranean enclave. Although British, Spanish and Gibraltarian authorities have said the navy's arrival at the British overseas territory is long-scheduled, some in Spain see it as provocative.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Lodewijk Asscher, has called on the European Union to review its immigration policies. Asscher, who is also Social Affairs Minister, wrote in De Volkskrant newspaper that migration from the poorer and newer EU countries has negative effects. He urged for rules to punish companies that exploit immigrant labour and pointed that labour migration should be “high on the agenda” in Brussels.
Pretoria News says Oscar Pistorius was told he would face trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in March as he appeared in court yesterday – the same day that would have been her 30th birthday. The 26-year-old Paralympian from South Africa is accused of shooting Reeva to death at their home on Valentine's night, but claims he opened fire after mistaking her for an intruder.
Sole 24 Ore reports Italy's latest weapon against tax evasion, the so-called “redditometro” or “income-metre”, has became operational. The database cross-referencing software compares household spending to income declarations, mining information going back to 2009. Consumption deemed inconsistent with declared incomes will trigger checks by tax authorities, and taxpayers will be required to justify their spending capacity.
Prince William has described his newborn son George as a “bit of a rascal” and admitted that fatherhood had changed him already. Speaking to CNN about George's character in an interview shown Monday, William described George as a “little fighter”. In his first interview since the birth on July 22, the British prince said he and Catherine were enjoying their new role as parents, but admitted the new arrival was keeping them on their toes.
Metro says a British lawyer has warned social media users that their tweets could be used as evidence against them. Defence barrister Mark McDonald said that messages written online are being used increasingly by the Crown Prosecution Service and police.