The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta says a cyclone ravaged the island, halting airport and ferry services.
The Malta Independent quotes Simon Busuttil saying Labour can keep Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, He was reacting after Dr Pullicino Orlando said Dr Busuttil had asked him to rejoin the PN. Dr Busuttil said that was when Dr Pullicino Orlando was still an MP.
In-Nazzjon says people have been queuing outside the MFSA seeking refuge after investing in Crystal Finance. It also reports on an Opposition motion calling on Home Minister Manuel Mallia to publish reports involving the police.
l-orizzont leads with comments by the prime minister that Malta needs to look beyond the EU to grow its economy.
The overseas press
UK, a suspected Islamist attack on Remembrance Sunday ceremonies has been foiled in a series of raids by counter-terrorism police. The Times reports four men were arrested amid increasing tensions surrounding tomorrow’s commemorations. The Sun says the four were thought to have been planning a knife attack on Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Albert Hall this evening. The alleged plot is thought to have been inspired by Islamic State militants.
Fox News says President Obama has authorised a broad expansion of the US military mission in Iraq that could boost the total number of American troops there to 3,100 and spread advisory teams and trainers across the country, including into Anbar province where fighting with Islamic State militants has been fierce.
The Daily Express reports British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has claimed victory against the EU after announcing that Britain would now make two payments totalling £850 million by September 2015, instead of the £1.7 billion lump sum that was due next month. It adds, however, that critics have snapped back at the agreement, claiming Britain would have been paid the rebate regardless and insisted that the new figure is what the country would have ended up paying anyway.
Ansa says much of Italy remains on maximum weather alert after a cyclone engulfed Sicily and torrential rainfall that forecasters said may take a brief pause on the weekend before resuming next week. In particular, a new Atlantic disturbance was expected to roll tomorrow.
Manila Times gives special coverage to a day of prayer and memorial services in The Philippines, marking a year since Typhoon Haiyan ravaged mostly poor areas across the country’s centre as 25,000 remain displaced. Typhoon Haiyan damaged, and in some cases wiped out, practically everything in its path as it swept ashore on November 8, 2013.
The Lancet quotes WHO saying 4,960 people have died of the Ebola virus and 13,268 cases of infection have been confirmed. The deadly virus was still rampant in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. There have been no new cases in Mali, Spain, and the United States, the three countries that have treated Ebola patients within their territories.
La Prensa says the 43 Mexican students who disappeared in southern Mexico in September were abducted by police on the orders of a local mayor, and are believed to have been turned over to a gang that killed them and burned their bodies before throwing some remains in a river.
Euronews reports festivities are in full swing in Berlin to mark 25 years since the Wall came down. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in communist East Germany, leads three days of commemorations for those killed trying to flee the repressive state, ahead of a giant festival tomorrow marking the joyous breach of Europe’s Cold War division on November 9, 1989.
Robin Williams was sober when he committed suicide. NBC says the final autopsy report, released yesterday, shows Williams did not have alcohol or illicit drugs in his system but confirms he was suffering from depression, anxiety, the early stages of Parkinson’s Disease and increasing feelings of compulsion and paranoia. Williams, 63, died of “asphyxia due to hanging”.
Xinhua reports police in China have rescued 11 babies from a trafficking ring and are seeking to track down their parents. Thirty-two suspects have been arrested in connection with the case, which is centred in China’s south-west.
A dying grandmother was granted a final wish of seeing her favourite horse one last time – after the animal was brought to visit her in her hospital bed. The Daily Telegraph says Sheila Marsh, 77, passed away just hours after the horse, named Bronwen, was brought to see her at Wigan Royal Infirmary.