The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta reports how a man who stabbed another man in a Gozo courtroom was not found guilty of attempted murder.
l-orizzont leads with an Aditus report on the integration of migrants.
The Malta Independent says the Ombudsman has filed a judicial protest against Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia over the investigation of cases from soldiers.
In-Nazzjon also leads with the judicial protest by the Ombudsman.
The overseas press
Pope Francis has launched a sweeping attack on the world's economic system, saying it discards the young, puts money ahead of people and survives on the profits of war. In an interview with the Barcelona-based Vanguardia, the 77-year-old leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics said some countries had a youth unemployment rate of more than 50 per cent, with many millions in Europe seeking work in vain, adding “It's madness!". The Pope says the people's needs should be at the heart of the economic system.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel that her controversial candidate to head the European Commission would be ‘deeply damaging’. The warning comes in an article placed in leading European newspapers, such as Suddeutsche Zeitung in Germany and the Irish Times, in which Cameron makes public for the first time his opposition to arch-federalist Jean-Claude Juncker.
Ansa reports Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has accused 13 senators from his own party of seeking "15 minutes of fame" after they withdrew their backing for an overhaul of the political system, and pledged to push ahead with reforms.
According to World Bulletin, dozens of aircraft briefly vanished from air-traffic control radars in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia this week and last in separate incidents that Slovak authorities blamed on military electronic warfare exercises. Air-traffic controllers in Austria and Germany said data about the planes' position, direction, height or speed went missing on June 5 and June 10, but the outages posed no serious danger to people on the aircraft travelling at high altitude. Austrian media said was the NATO western military alliance. NATO had no immediate comment.
CNN quotes President Barack Obama saying it would take him several days to decide what action to take over Iraq, but that no US troops would be deployed there. He said any US involvement "has to be joined by a serious and sincere effort by Iraq's leaders to set aside sectarian differences". Sunni insurgents have seized the cities of Mosul and Tikrit, and are moving closer to Baghdad. Iraq's most senior Shia cleric has issued a call to arms to fellow Shias.
The Times reports Angelina Jolie has said sexual violence in conflict was now "firmly on the top table of international diplomacy". He statement came at the close of the “End Sexual Violence in Conflict” summit, which brought together representatives from more than 120 countries. She spoke alongside UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, who co-hosted the London summit and US Secretary of State John Kerry who said it was time to "banish sexual violence to the dark ages". The actress and UN special envoy praised male leaders prepared to confront "the taboo" around the issue.
Kyiv Post says Ukrainian government forces have reclaimed the port city of Mariupol from pro-Russian separatists in heavy fighting and said they had regained control of a long stretch of the border with Russia. The advances are significant victories for the pro-European leadership in a military operation to crush the rebellion. The police have cordoned off several streets. Parallel peace moves were moving slowly, however, and Russia is threatening to cut gas supplies to Ukraine from Monday in a row over prices.
Ukraine’s Naftogaz is hoping to continue dialogue with Gazprom this weekedn to find a compromise over contentious issues. The state company's chief executive Andrei Kobolev said on the Ukrainian TV Channel 24, "We are preparing for the worst but hope we still have two days to find a compromise.” At the same time, Kobolev said Naftogaz is preparing for the worst-case scenario – total discontinuation of Russian gas supplies to Ukraine as of Monday.
Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo has voiced fears that not all of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram would ever return. In an interview with the Premium Times, he said he would consider it “a near-miracle if you get all of them back”.