The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta reports that the dumping of sewage on fields is 'widespread'.
The Malta Independent quotes Marlene Farrugia saying a press release would have sufficed to announce fuel price changes.
In-Nazzjon leads with yesterday's address by Simon Busuttil at a political activity in Zabbar.
l-orizzont quotes Michael Grech, president of the Gozo chamber of commerce, saying Gozitans should not be required to pay the fare to cross to Malta to work.
The overseas press
There is confusion in Libya over voting by members of the National Congress to choose a new prime minister. Under the heading “Libya has two prime ministers”, Libya Herald reports hours after the congress elected businessman Ahmed Maetig, the acting chairman rejected his appointment in a dispute over whether later rounds of the voting were legal. First Deputy President Ezzidden Al-Awami had chaired the session that saw Maetig garner 113 votes. He then closed the proceedings. They were then reopened by the Second Deputy President, Saleh Makhzoum, and a second vote held in which Maerig gained 121 votes. The country’s caretaker prime minister, Abdullah Al-Thinni was asked to stay on in office.
In London, The Times says the police have recommended that Gerry Adams, the Sinn Féin leader, should face charges in connection with the IRA’s abduction, torture and murder of a mother of 10 more than 40 years ago. Adams, who was released yesterday after 94 hours in police custody, always denied any involvement in the killing. He criticized the Northern Ireland police for arresting him over the 1972 murder of Jean McConville in the middle of an election campaign.
Expresso quotes Portugal’s Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho announcing the country would to exit its three-year EU-IMF bailout programme without seeking back-up credit from its lenders. He said the decision not to seek any precautionary programme was taken after a successful bond auction last month. On Friday, Portugal passed the final bailout audit by EU-IMF experts, thus closing out the essential part of its 78-billion-euro three-year rescue.
The Daily Mirror reports Scotland Yard detectives were set to go to Portugal to start digging in and around the holiday area where Madeleine McCann vanished seven years ago at the age of three. It is understood a team of highly-skilled forensic officers would use radar equipment to look underground in the grim hunt for clues. The girl’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, who never gave up hope their missing daughter “Maddy” was alive. have been briefed by officers about their plans to search three sites near the Praia da Luz resort they were staying at.
Voice of Nigeria reports President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to seek the release of tan 223 schoolgirls who were abducted last month in the northeast of the country. He admitted that despite searches by the army and the air force, the girls had not been found. He said he had sought help from President Barack Obama and other world powers, including France, Britain and China, for help on security issues. Jonathan has come under mounting pressure since gunmen believed to be Boko Haram extremists stormed the girls’ boarding school on April 14, forcing them from their dormitories onto trucks and driving them into the bush.
Ansa reports Italy’s Interior Minister Angelino Alfano has denied that there had been any negotiations between the state and the ultras (diehard football club supporters). His statement on Twitter referred to Napoli's football club captain Hamsik talking to the head of the Neapolitan hooligans regarding the delayed kickoff for Saturday night's football match between Fiorentina and Napoli. In clashes outside the stadium in Rome before the match, three Napoli supporters were shot at and one was in danger dying. He has been operated upon and is said to be in a stable condition.
Kyiv Post says more than 60 people arrested over Friday's violence in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa have been freed by police after protesters attacked the main police station. The clashes on Friday left more than 40 dead, mostly pro-Russian separatists killed in a building fire. The Ukrainian prosecutors say they did not authorise the release of the detainees freed and accused the police of “blatant disregard of their duties”.
La Prensa says Opposition leader Juan Carlos Varela has won the presidential election in Panama with almost 40 per cent of the vote. Varela, who currently is the country’s vice-president, had distanced himself from President Ricardo Martinelli's policies and promised a cleaner government.
Sky News announces the death of former British number one tennis player Elena Baltacha of liver cancer. She was 30. Born in Ukraine and brought up in Scotland, she revealed she had the illness in March, having being diagnosed in January. Baltacha, who was British number one for nearly three years, only retired from professional tennis in 2013.