The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times of Malta reports that thousands are waiting for e-residence permits.
The Malta Independent says there has been an 8.7 per cent increase in airline seat capacity for the winter.
In-Nazzjon says the Opposition will tonight show 'the full picture' about the Budget. Simon Busuttil replies to the Budget speech in parliament this evening.
l-orizzont says a KPMG report to the PN raised doubts on the feasibility of electricity night tariffs.
The overseas press
As typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Vietnam early this morning, an international aid effort is underway to assist the Philippines in the wake of the dead and widespread destruction it left in its path. ABC conservative estimates put the number of dead at 10,000.
Libya Herald says Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has warned Libyans of the risk of possible intervention by foreign occupation forces if anarchy were to continue in the country. Speaking at a news conference, Zeidan said. “The international community can no longer tolerate a state of the Mediterranean that is a source of violence and terrorism,” he said, adding the government would be giving a 10-day deadline to protesters at the country’s oil export terminals to leave.
Ansa reports the Italian navy has arrested 16 human traffickers aboard a so-called “mother ship” in international waters off Libya. The fishing boat served as a staging area from which the traffickers dispatched their clients aboard smaller, often rickety vessels to destinations in southern Europe.
Kathimerini says Greece’s government has survived a no-confidence vote in parliament over the government’s closure of public broadcaster ERT. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ coalition government survived the no-confidence vote by a narrow margin, with153 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament voting against the motion.
CBC News reports the European Space Agency's Goce satellite has re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, burning up in the process. Early estimates suggested any surviving debris could have fallen somewhere along a path through East Asia and the Western Pacific to Antarctica.
Iran’s Press TV quotes President Hassan Rohani saying his country would not bow to “threats” when it resumes talks in 10 days with the so-called P5+1 group – US, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany – over its nuclear ambitions. He told parliament, Iran’s negotiators had made clear to the six world powers that any sanctions, humiliation or discrimination would not be tolerated.
Gulf News reports hundreds of illegal migrants targeted in a Saudi nationwide crackdown turned themselves in on Sunday after security forces besieged a Riyadh neighbourhood where riots had left two people dead, 68 injured and 561 arrested.
RIA Novosti says a Russian performance artist was hospitalised after stripping naked and nailing his testicles to a Red Square cobblestone in protest against the Kremlin's crackdown on political rights.
The legendary Swedish pop group ABBA is mulling a possible reunion next year, singer Agnetha Faltskog told the weekly German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Next year marks the 40th anniversary of the band's first hit “Waterloo”, which won them the Eurovision song contest and catapulted them to fame. ABBA subsequently became one of the world's best-selling pop bands with more than 380 million records worldwide.