The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times of Malta and In-Nazzjon report how Simon Busuttil will today seek an urgent debate in parliament on the citizenship scheme.
The Malta Independent says the government scheme of delivering medicines is due to be introduced in four years' time.
l-orizzont says the MUT withdrew from the Co-Education Committee after a meeting with the PN.
The overseas press
UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon has announced he had invited Iran to take part in tomorrow’s preliminary talks in Switzerland, to try and solve the crisis in Syria. The New York Times quotes Ban saying he had received assurances from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that Teheran would play a “positive and constructive role” in securing a transitional government in Syria.
Kyiv Post reports Ukrainian opposition leader Vitali Klitschko has said President Viktor Yanukovych has promised to convene a special commission later today to find a solution to two-month political crisis. Klitschko said he had asked Yanukovych to resign and call early elections.
Pope Francis wants to open the secret archives of the Vatican to shed light on the work of the Church and of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust. Skorka Abraham, rector of the Rabbinical Seminary of Buenos Aires and long-time friend of the Pope told The Sunday Times the Pope would want to do this before the process of canonisation of Pius XII, in order to clarify its position in all of the years of the extermination of the Jews.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has defended his country's position on homosexuality, saying Russians love British musician Elton John “despite his orientation”. He told the BBC he was not prejudiced against gay people and he did not care about a person's sexual orientation
Gaddafi loyalists have broken into and vandalised the Italian cemetery in Tripoli. Libya Herald reports that dozens of loyalists destroyed the entrance of the cemetery and the guard box, but were halted by locals and chased away before they were able to damage the tombs.
Al Arabiya says the United Arab Emirates is to introduce compulsory military service for men aged between 18 and 30. They have to complete up to two years in the UARE armed forces which have traditionally relied on foreign recruitment. Observers believe the move is intended to preserve the country’s stability and to promote national solidarity.
Jakarta Post reports five Indonesians have died and more than 30,000 fled their homes in the capital due to flooding, with people using rubber dinghies and wading through 10-metre-deep water to reach safer ground. Many parts of Jakarta were under murky, brown water after days of torrential rain produced the city's first significant floods of the months-long rainy season.
Sky News confirms the right-wing UK Independence Party has suspended one of its local counsellors who has blamed recent flooding on the government’s decision to legalise same-sex marriage. David Silvester, who had defected to UKIP from the Conservatives in protest at David Cameron's support for same-sex unions, said the floods were God’s retribution for a Christian nation abandoning its faith.
Sporting Times announces the death former British athlete Sir Chris Chataway. He was 82. Chataway, who broke the 5,000m world record in 1954, won the Commonwealth Games three miles title in the same year and was knighted for his services to the aviation industry in 1995.