The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas pres.
The Times of Malta says the impeachment of Judge Farrugia Sacco is to start again from scratch.
The Malta Independent says Henley and the PN are in open war over the citizenship scheme.
MaltaToday reports how Judge Farrugia Sacco's impeachment motion was declared 'dead'
In-Nazzjon reports how Henley and Partners will make €200 million from Malta's citizenship scheme.
l-orizzont says a whistle-blower is ready to reveal a scandal on the granting of marine licences seven years ago.
The overseas press
Some 45,000 boat migrants, including thousands of children, made dangerous crossings of the Mediterranean to land in Italy and Malta in 2013, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Most were fleeing wars or abuses. Deutsche Welle says the report listed 11,300 migrants fleeing Syria, 9,800 from Eritrea and 3,200 from Somalia. Among them were 8,300 minors; two-thirds of these were unaccompanied. The IOM said its 2013 total was a sharp jump from the 13,000 recorded in 2012, but down on the 63,000 recorded in 2011 during armed sectarian conflict in Libya.
President Obama has called on Congress to make 2014 a “year of action”. VOA reports he used his State of the Union address to set out how he would use his executive powers, making clear he would sidestep Congress to overcome what he described as years of “rancorous argument” over the proper size of the federal government.
RIA Novosti quotes President Putin rejecting “foreign interference” in Ukraine where the prime minister resigned after months of protests. Speaking at an EU-Russian summit in Brussels, Putin said visits by overseas envoys were adding to the unrest there. Observers took his comments to be a thinly-veiled criticism of EU policy.
Obozrevatel reports Ukraine's parliament is due to debate a possible amnesty for scores of protesters arrested in anti-government demonstrations. President Viktor Yanukovych has said he wants to make the amnesty conditional on protesters leaving official buildings and taking down barricades. The opposition has so far ruled this out and is demanding early elections. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov reigned on Tuesday while deputies loyal to President Viktor Yanukovich, acting to calm violent street protests, back-tracked and overturned anti-protest laws they rammed through parliament 12 days ago.
The BBC says Britain will give temporary residence to several hundred of Syria’s most vulnerable refugees. Deputy PM Nick Clegg said girls and women who had been victims of or were at risk of sexual violence, torture victims, and elderly and disabled people would get priority. The government expects the number of refugees accepted to be in the hundreds but has not set a specific target. The UN has called on western countries to take 30,000 Syrians.
Al Ahram says Islamist militant gunmen have killed a top Interior Ministry official in Cairo on Tuesday in the latest blow to a military-backed Egyptian government struggling to curb violence and suppress dissent. General Mohamed Saeed, head of the ministry's technical office, was shot in his car outside his home in daytime by gunmen riding a motor cycle.
Al Ayyam says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has proposed that Israel carry out a gradual three-year withdrawal from the occupied West Bank as part of any future peace deal, an offer that fell short of Israeli demands. He gave the timeframe in an interview shown at an international security conference in Tel Aviv, where Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon challenged the effectiveness of the Palestinian leader's current security commitments.
Televicentro announces the Nicaraguan Congress has approved changes to the constitution that would allow President Daniel Ortega to run for a third successive term in 2016. The Bill scraps limits to the number of terms Nicaraguan presidents can serve. The Opposition alleged the changes were a threat to democracy.
USA Today says metal rock band Motley Crue, which became emblematic of the hard-partying hair metal acts popular on 1980s MTV, will call it quits after their scheduled farewell tour concludes next year, the band said on Tuesday. Best known for hit songs “Dr. Feelgood” and “Girls, Girls, Girls,” Motley Crue made the decision legally binding by signing a cessation of touring agreement at a news conference in their hometown of Los Angeles. The band's final tour is due to begin on July 2 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and its North American leg is scheduled to conclude on Nov. 21 in Vancouver before the group goes overseas in 2015.