The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press
Times of Malta says trappers are to be allowed to catch 26,850 according to Ornis Committee recommendations.
The Malta Independent discusses the hunters’ petition to amend the Referenda Act to protect minority rights.
In-Nazzjon reports that the government has made a U-turn on the legal notice on data collection by the Education Minister.
l-orizzont reports how €125,676 were given in compensation to a former dockyard worker injured at work.
The overseas press
Le Soir says G7 leaders meeting in Brussels have said they were prepared to impose further sanctions on Russia if it continued to destabilise Ukraine.
President Putin has said he was ready to meet Ukrainian President Poroshenko when the two men are in France for ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Speaking to France’s TF1 station Putin said that, as yet, Poroshenko did not have blood on his hands and therefore had a unique opportunity to open a dialogue with the factions in eastern Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Warsaw Times reports President Obama has said the free world was now united against “Russia’s dark tactics” in Ukraine. After his Warsaw speech, where he attended celebrations that marked the beginning of the end of Communism in Poland 25 years ago, he went on to Brussels for a working dinner with leaders of the G-7 nations.
VOA News says tens of thousands of people have turned out in Hong Kong for a vigil marking the 25th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square that ended the 1989 pro-democracy movement in China.
Al Thawra reports Bashar al-Assad has won a landslide victory in the Syrian presidential election securing a third seven-year term while fighting a bloody civil war against rebels seeking to depose him.
Renegade General Khalifa Haftar has vowed to strike back against Islamist militias after surviving an assassination attempt which killed several of his guards. Speaking on Libyan TV, he quashed rumours about a successful attempt, saying he had been only slightly wounded.
Dublin Post says the Irish government is considering how to respond to the discovery of the remains of nearly 800 babies and infants discovered in a septic tank beside a former mother home for unmarried mothers run by the Roman Catholic Church.
According to Huffington Post, a new report says there’s a severe shortage of midwives in more than 70 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Those countries suffer 96 percent of the world’s maternal deaths and more than 90 percent of stillbirths and newborn deaths.