The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta reports that violence against old people has doubled.
The Malta Independent says the EU has formally given the green light for the citizenship scheme.
In-Nazzjon leads with Simon Busuttil's call for the government to stop its plans to moor a gas storage tanker in Marsaxlokk Bay. Dr Busuttil said safety has to come before the prime minister's partisan interests
l-orizzont says murder victim Pietru Cassar of Zejtun was very close to the PN.
The overseas press
Tribune de Genève reports a UN commission of inquiry has said crimes against humanity it had uncovered in North Korea were strikingly similar to the atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II. The panel heard evidence of murder, torture, starvation and enslavement on a scale unparalleled in the contemporary world.
Ansa says Italian Democratic Party leader Matteo Renzi has set ambitious reform targets after being given a mandate to try to form a government. The premier-designate said his government would seek to achieve one major reform every month until May, starting this month with a new election law.
Euronews reports scenes of jubilation in Tripoli’s Martyrs Square as Libyans marked the third anniversary of the revolution that brought down Muammar Gaddafi. Streets were decked with Libya’s revolutionary flag. Not everybody is celebrating, though. Many people are angry over political chaos and a lack of progress towards democracy over the last three years. In an apparent effort to appease people, the president announced on Monday that Libya’s parliament will call elections “as early as possible”.
Avvenire says Pope Francis has begun a week of meetings with Roman Catholic cardinals to discuss how to overhaul the Catholic Church’s scandal-hit bureaucracy and finances. The council will hear a report from a new committee of experts set up by the pope to reform the Vatican bank. On Wednesday, the council will discuss “organisational and economic programmes of the Holy See”. The pope’s busy week continues on Thursday and Friday with a meeting of cardinals from around the world, known as a consistory, to discuss family issues. On Saturday, Francis will formally appoint 19 new cardinals – the first of his pontificate.
According to Kyiv Post, Russia says it will give Ukraine a new tranche of an 1-billion-euro aid package in what is seen as a boost to President Viktor Yanukovych. In a separate development, Ukraine’s opposition is planning to press for a vote in parliament on the return to the country’s 2004 constitution – a move which would limit Mr Yanukovych’s powers and could lead to snap presidential elections.
VOA News reports tje US has rejected accusations by Venezuela that it had been helping to organise anti-government protests. On Sunday, Venezuela said it was expelling three US diplomats for meeting students who had been leading the demonstrations.
O Globo says 15 policemen have gone on trial in Brazil accused of taking part in a prison massacre at Carandiru jail in Saõ Paolo in 1992. The trial has been split into four phases - one for each floor of the jail in which the 111 killings took place.
ABC News announces an asylum seek has been killed and 77 others injured during a second night of rioting at an Australian immigration detention centre in Papua New Guinea. It follows reports on Sunday that a number of asylum seekers had escaped from the centre on Manus Island and were being recaptured soon afterwards.
Miami Herald reports an American artist has been arrested after smashing a one-million-dollar vase by the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Police said the man deliberately destroyed the exhibit at a new gallery in Miami. He said he was protesting against the lack of displays by local artists.
Global News says at least 10 South Korean college students are reported to have been killed and more than 15 others injured after a roof collapsed at a resort building in the south-eastern city of Gyeongju. Ore then 10 other people are feared trapped inside the building.
Times of India reports the high-profile editor of an Indian investigative magazine has been charged with sexually assaulting a female colleague in the lift of a five-star hotel in the resort state of Goa. Police said Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal tried to evade arrest for several weeks after being accused.