The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.

The Sunday Times of Malta says the PL is likely to return a narrower majority in the European elections.

The Malta Independent on Sunday says PL voters are the least decided on their voting intentions for the European elections.

MaltaToday reports that the police are investigating alleged misuse of funds by former Enemalta chairman Alex Tranter.

It-Torca says the former government awarded €4.5m in consultancies to people close to it.

Il-Mument reports that government officials are working from Labour headquarters. It also says it has confirmation that people have died in hospital corridors.

Illum says former Nationalist backbenchers were paid €2m by the former government.

KullHadd quotes the police commissioner saying he has no intention of resigning any time soon, and he found it strange that some quarters were speculating in this way.

The overseas press

Al Arabiya quotes officials in Libya saying at least 79 people were killed and 141 others injured in fierce clashes in eastern Libya between armed groups loyal to a rogue ex-general and Islamist militias.

Baltic Times reports the worst floods in more than a century have killed more than 30 people and driven tens of thousands of people from their homes in the Balkans and caused extensive material damage.

Donetskie Novosti says separatists in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk have appointed a new prime minister. Alexander Borodai received the most votes in the third session of the Supreme Council, the self-proclaimed republic's legislature established by pro-Russian separatists in a Ukrainian government building.

Le Monde reports African leaders meeting in Paris have agreed to wage war on Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic militants. President Hollande of France, who hosted the summit, said regional powers had pledged to share intelligence and co-ordinate action against the group.

Hurryiet says Turkey has called a halt to the Soma mine rescue operation after two more bodies were found, raising the death toll to 301. The bodies of all miners trapped after the mine collapsed are now thought to be recovered. 

The Chinese government has evacuated more than 3,000 of its nationals from Vietnam following a wave of anti-Chinese riots. State-run Xinhua news agency says Beijing is arranging charter flights and ships to help more people to leave. 

El Unversal reports the Mexican government has said it had captured the leader of a drug gang allied with a dangerous cartel in the violent southwestern state of Guerrero. Mexican police arrested Leonor Nava, boss of Los Rojos (The Reds) in Tecpan de Galeana northwest of the beach resort of Acapulco, the biggest city in Guerrero. 

AFP reports only one in ten lawmakers elected at India's national poll are female, despite pledges by politicians from all sides during the campaign to empower women. 

Trained beekeepers had to tackle a 5,000-strong swarm of honeybees surrounding a central London store. The BBC says the insects were smoked out after gathering around a sign in front of a store in Victoria Street earlier. 

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