The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times of Malta says the Ombudsman has warned that injustices boards being appointed in the AFM and various sections of the government should not change his decisions.
The Malta Independent reports how Birdlife accused the FKNK of an ‘inside job’ after the Wildlife Regulation Unit made a proposal to allow trapping in the autumn.
In-Nazzjon says four Maltese have been arrested in Verona for alleged shoplifting and thefts from hotel.
MaltaToday says a police inspector involved in the wrongful prosecution case was investigated for a 2007 arson.
l-Orizzont leads with the GWU’s fresh warning against abuse of workers through precarious working conditions. The newspaper also gives prominence to the commemoration of the first anniversary since the death of Dom Mintoff.
The overseas press
The UN political affairs chief has arrived in Cairo for a series of discussions with Egyptian authorities and Muslim Brotherhood leaders. AFP reports Jeffrey Feltman is to hold wide-ranging talks with a focus on how the UN can best support initiatives to restore peace and forge reconciliation in Egypt. Feltman will report his findings to the UN Security Council when he returns from the talks, which are set to last through Friday.
Fox News says senior members of the Obama administration have been meeting in Washington to discuss whether to reduce the $1.5 billion aid programme to Egypt. The US has warned that a failure to include the Brotherhood in political dialogue could affect the aid, most of which goes to the Egyptian military.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will keep up its struggle to reinstate deposed president Mohammed Morsi despite the arrest of the Islamist movement's leader Mohammed Badie. The Brotherhood's political party's executive committee member Farid Ismail Abdelhalim told Adnkronos International that Badie's arrest was a violation of every red line, after the massacres of recent days. He said they were determined to keep on with their protests and fight the military coup.
David Miranda, the Brazilian held by anti-terrorist police in Heathrow Airport in connection with the Edward Snowden case, has told the BBC he felt threatened during his detention. He said he disclosed the passwords of all his e-mail and social media accounts after being told he would face jail if he didn’t. Miranda, partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, is to mount a legal challenge over his detention.
Child labour is on the rise in Europe due to the economic crisis, the Council of Europe warned on Tuesday. Euronews quotes the Council's Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks saying that “in most cases, governments are aware of the problem but few are ready to confront it”. He denounced the lack of data on the phenomenon and said the figures available were “worrying”.
Deutsche Welle reports Angela Merkel has became the first German Chancellor to visit the World War II Nazi death camp Dachau on Tuesday, as part of her campaign to warn about the threat posed by the extreme right in Europe. Merkel's visit to Dachau comes as she campaigns for a third term in office ahead of September 22 elections. In a moving and sombre speech, the German leader said she had feelings of shame and sadness on her visit. Earlier, she said Europe must remain ever vigilant to the threat posed by the extreme right and urged people to show more courage in the fight against neo-Nazi movements.
Corriere della Sera says police in northern Italy have detained a 58-year-old Nazi sympathiser for distributing leaflets containing racist insults against the country's first black minister, Cecile Kyenge. Police searched the unnamed man's home and found Nazi memorabilia such as uniforms and replicas of grenades and bombs. The 48-year-old Congo-born immigrant doctor Kyenge, who is Italy’s Integration Minister, wants to pass a law granting automatic citizenship for children born to legal immigrants in Italy – a proposal that has incensed the far-right.
Cesky Noviny reports Czech lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament on Tuesday, triggering early elections that could put an end to months of political turmoil over a spy and bribery scandal. A total of 140 lawmakers backed the proposal tabled by three major parties. A majority of 120 votes in the 200-seat parliament was needed for the vote to succeed.
Dawn says that a Pakistani court has indicted former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf on murder charges stemming from the 2007 assassination of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Musharraf, who became a key US ally in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, pleaded not guilty.
Forbes quotes FUFA saying that in the first seven hours of ticket sales on Tuesday, more than one million tickets for next year’s World Cup matches in Brazil had been requested by hundreds of thousands of football fans. Brazil, Argentina, US, Chile and UK are the five countries with the highest amount of ticket hunters so far. The opening match at the São Paulo Arena had more than 168,000 people requesting tickets. Football fans have until October 10 to apply for tickets during this first sales period.