The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.

The Sunday Times of Malta leads with the PN's threat to publish the citizenship 'secret' list. It also quotes the PM saying that the Vella case was poorly handled.

The Malta Independent on Sunday says NGOs have joined forces to protest lack of sensitivity to the environment.

MaltaToday says that according to a survey, the majority are in favour of the budget but against the sale of citizenship.

Il-Mument says a PN government will publish the list of secret passports. 

It-Torca asks if the PN's threat to publish the secret citizenship list would be in breach of the law.

Illum says the reduced tax for footballers is only for part-time footballers.

KullHadd leads with comments by Finance Minister Edward Scicluna that the Budget is only the beginning of Labour reforms.

The overseas press

After three days of intensive six-power talks in Geneva, no deal has been reached between the Group 5 +1 (US, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany) with Iran meant to cap some of Tehran's nuclear programme. Tribune de Genève quotes EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton saying there had been a lot of “concrete progress” but some differences remained. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he was not disappointed with the outcome. The talks would resume on November 20.

Voice of Vietnam says the authorities have evacuated some 300,000 residents into storm shelters as it braces for the arrival of Typhoon Haiyan. In its wake, high casualties are feared in the central Philippines, with the death toll exceeding 1,200. Some 700,000 people have been displaced and there is catastrophic damage, with only a few buildings left standing.

Le Journal du Dimanche reports French riot police fired tear gas at hundreds of anti-tax demonstrators in northwest France on Saturday after protesters pelted them and tried to drive a tractor through a barricade. The ecotax, aimed at encouraging environmentally-friendly commercial transport, imposes new levies on French and foreign vehicles transporting commercial goods weighing over 3.5 tonnes.

Kathemerini also reported clashes between Greek police and hundreds demonstrators, including opposition MPs, in front of the premises of the former public television, Etr, on the outskirts of Athens. The protesters wanted to enter the building, the police had evacuated on Thursday after an occupation which began in June, when the TV was 'switched off' in the plan of the government cuts.

Gulf News says Saudi Arabian police clashed with foreign workers, mostly Africans, in a poor district of Riyadh on Saturday, nearly a week into a visa crackdown in which thousands have been detained and one man killed by police. Security forces in riot gear fired into the air and used truncheons to disperse large crowds as scores of men ran through the streets, some throwing stones and other missiles at cars and police.

France 24 reports the United States and Israel have automatically lost their voting rights at the UN cultural body UNESCO after missing a deadline to pay their dues. Both nations stopped UNESCO funding in 2011 after the agency admitted Palestine as a member.

Moscow Times says a 25-year-old Venezuelan television presenter, Gabriela Isler, has been crowned Miss Universe in a glittering ceremony in Moscow. Judges picked the winner from a total of 86 contestants at a show watched by millions of viewers around the world. Last year's winner Olivia Culpo placed a diamond crown on the head of Isler. Earlier, Culpo appeared on stage wearing a white cutaway swimsuit studded with diamonds, rubies and emeralds that the organisers said was worth $1 million.

One TV has shown live pictures of the two Russian cosmonauts taking the Olympic torch for a spacewalk three months ahead of the Sochi winter contest. The torch – unlit – will return from the International Space Station to Earth on Monday.

Olympic torches had also left the planet aboard US space shuttles ahead of the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta and the 2000 event in Sydney. But never had a torch been taken out for a spacewalk until yesterday.

Football: Abdenzeitung remarks that European champions Bayern Munich set a new record for the longest unbeaten run in Bundesliga history with a 3-0 victory at home to Augsburg on Saturday. Bayern have now gone 37 league matches since their last defeat, at Bayer Leverkusen in October 2012, breaking Hamburg's previous record of 36 from January, 1983. Bayern coach Pep Guardiola, who took charge in June, also set a personal record as he celebrated his 12th league match without defeat – the best start by a new Bundesliga coach in the league's history with 32 points.

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