The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta reports that there is a worrying number of drug addicts aged just 12, according to a survey.
The Malta Independent in a related story says 23,000 Ecstasy pills were destroyed last year.
In-Nazzjon reports that Mcast has a €2 million deficit.
l-orizzont highlights the story of an elderly woman suffering cancer who has been abandoned by her family. She is to be given a place in a home for the elderly.
The overseas press
President Obama will discuss the situation in Ukraine and other issues of the US-German bilateral cooperation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday during her visit to Washington. The Washington Post quotes White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz telling journalists the two leaders will discuss a range of issues including Ukraine, Russia, counterterrorism, ISIL, Afghanistan, and Iran.
The news of the Obama-Merkel meeting came as Sputnik News reported talks lasting more than five hours in Moscow between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chancellor Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on a new plan for settling the Ukrainian crisis ended with the announcement the Russian and Ukrainian presidents would discuss a proposal to end the crisis in a four-way phone call on Sunday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the negotiations as “constructive”.
The Daily Telegraph reports voters in a number of countries, including Germany and France, are demanding a reform of the European Union. An extensive survey has found that a majority of people in France (58 per cent) believe the EU should be reformed, as do around half in the UK (49 per cent), the Netherlands (49 per cent) and Germany (46 per cent). The paper says the findings come as a major boost to the British PM, who has pledged to significantly change Britain’s relationship with Brussels before holding an in-out referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU by 2017.
European Voice says Eurozone finance ministers will hold a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday to seek a solution to the debt stand-off with Greece's new anti-austerity government. The meeting, a day before a full EU summit, would be the first chance for new Greek finance minister Yaris Varoufakis to formally set out to sceptical colleagues the anti-austerity government's demands for a reduction in Greece's debt.
France 24 says the leaders of the United Nations and the Arab League – Ban Ki-moon and Nabil al-Arabi – have made an urgent appeal to international donors to expedite aid promised to the people of Gaza, following last year's devastating war.
Mexican police have found 61 bodies, including those of children, in an abandoned crematorium in the Pacific resort of Acapulco. El Universal reports the authorities made the grim discovery of bodies covered in white sheets, some piled on top of each other. Acapulco has been beset by drug gang violence but it was not immediately clear whether the bodies were murder victims or whether the corpses were left there when the crematorium closed.
Corriere della Sera announces an Italian policeman who posed as an amiable host on the Couchsurfing.com website has been charged with drugging and raping a 16-year-old Australian girl and may have done the same to up to 15 other women. Dino Maglio, 35, will stand trial in Padua next month on charges of raping a minor with the aggravating circumstance of having administered a narcotic without her knowledge. The teen is understood to have stayed up chatting to Maglio while her mother and younger sister, who were also staying at his apartment, went to bed. After his arrest, Maglio admitted to having spiked the girl's drink and to having sexual intercourse with her, knowing she was a minor. He claimed that the sex had been consensual.
Rome’s homeless are about to get some tender loving care as the Vatican is finishing renovations on public restrooms just off St Peter’s Square which will include three showers and a barber shop for the homeless. Each “homeless pilgrim”, as Vatican Radio called them, will receive a kit including a towel, change of underwear, soap, deodorant, toothpaste, razor and shaving cream. The showers will be open every day but Wednesday and haircuts will be available on Mondays. Pope Francis’s alms-giver, Monsignor Konrad Krajewski, said the project was necessary because the homeless are often shunned for their hygiene. The initiative is being funded by donations and sales of papal parchments.
Metro says supermarkets in the UK have been told to move the flowers from their traditional locations near fruit and vegetables aisles because people were mistaking them for food. In a letter to Britain's biggest grocery stores, health officials said the bulbs were being mistaken for onions and the stems or leaves for Chinese vegetables. Daffodils contain toxic chemicals which are poisonous if ingested, causing severe vomiting.
The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
President Obama will discuss the situation in Ukraine and other issues of the US-German bilateral cooperation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday during her visit to Washington. The Washington Post quotes White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz telling journalists the two leaders will discuss a range of issues including Ukraine, Russia, counterterrorism, ISIL, Afghanistan, and Iran.
The news of the Obama-Merkel meeting came as Sputnik News reported talks lasting more than five hours in Moscow between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chancellor Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on a new plan for settling the Ukrainian crisis ended with the announcement the Russian and Ukrainian presidents would discuss a proposal to end the crisis in a four-way phone call on Sunday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the negotiations as “constructive”.
The Daily Telegraph reports voters in a number of countries, including Germany and France, are demanding a reform of the European Union. An extensive survey has found that a majority of people in France (58 per cent) believe the EU should be reformed, as do around half in the UK (49 per cent), the Netherlands (49 per cent) and Germany (46 per cent). The paper says the findings come as a major boost to the British PM, who has pledged to significantly change Britain’s relationship with Brussels before holding an in-out referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU by 2017.
European Voice says Eurozone finance ministers will hold a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday to seek a solution to the debt stand-off with Greece's new anti-austerity government. The meeting, a day before a full EU summit, would be the first chance for new Greek finance minister Yaris Varoufakis to formally set out to sceptical colleagues the anti-austerity government's demands for a reduction in Greece's debt.
France 24 says the leaders of the United Nations and the Arab League – Ban Ki-moon and Nabil al-Arabi – have made an urgent appeal to international donors to expedite aid promised to the people of Gaza, following last year's devastating war.
Mexican police have found 61 bodies, including those of children, in an abandoned crematorium in the Pacific resort of Acapulco. El Universal reports the authorities made the grim discovery of bodies covered in white sheets, some piled on top of each other. Acapulco has been beset by drug gang violence but it was not immediately clear whether the bodies were murder victims or whether the corpses were left there when the crematorium closed.
Corriere della Sera announces an Italian policeman who posed as an amiable host on the Couchsurfing.com website has been charged with drugging and raping a 16-year-old Australian girl and may have done the same to up to 15 other women. Dino Maglio, 35, will stand trial in Padua next month on charges of raping a minor with the aggravating circumstance of having administered a narcotic without her knowledge. The teen is understood to have stayed up chatting to Maglio while her mother and younger sister, who were also staying at his apartment, went to bed. After his arrest, Maglio admitted to having spiked the girl's drink and to having sexual intercourse with her, knowing she was a minor. He claimed that the sex had been consensual.
Rome’s homeless are about to get some tender loving care as the Vatican is finishing renovations on public restrooms just off St Peter’s Square which will include three showers and a barber shop for the homeless. Each “homeless pilgrim”, as Vatican Radio called them, will receive a kit including a towel, change of underwear, soap, deodorant, toothpaste, razor and shaving cream. The showers will be open every day but Wednesday and haircuts will be available on Mondays. Pope Francis’s alms-giver, Monsignor Konrad Krajewski, said the project was necessary because the homeless are often shunned for their hygiene. The initiative is being funded by donations and sales of papal parchments.
Metro says supermarkets in the UK have been told to move the flowers from their traditional locations near fruit and vegetables aisles because people were mistaking them for food. In a letter to Britain's biggest grocery stores, health officials said the bulbs were being mistaken for onions and the stems or leaves for Chinese vegetables. Daffodils contain toxic chemicals which are poisonous if ingested, causing severe vomiting.
vThe following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
President Obama will discuss the situation in Ukraine and other issues of the US-German bilateral cooperation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday during her visit to Washington. The Washington Post quotes White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz telling journalists the two leaders will discuss a range of issues including Ukraine, Russia, counterterrorism, ISIL, Afghanistan, and Iran.
The news of the Obama-Merkel meeting came as Sputnik News reported talks lasting more than five hours in Moscow between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chancellor Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on a new plan for settling the Ukrainian crisis ended with the announcement the Russian and Ukrainian presidents would discuss a proposal to end the crisis in a four-way phone call on Sunday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the negotiations as “constructive”.
The Daily Telegraph reports voters in a number of countries, including Germany and France, are demanding a reform of the European Union. An extensive survey has found that a majority of people in France (58 per cent) believe the EU should be reformed, as do around half in the UK (49 per cent), the Netherlands (49 per cent) and Germany (46 per cent). The paper says the findings come as a major boost to the British PM, who has pledged to significantly change Britain’s relationship with Brussels before holding an in-out referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU by 2017.
European Voice says Eurozone finance ministers will hold a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday to seek a solution to the debt stand-off with Greece's new anti-austerity government. The meeting, a day before a full EU summit, would be the first chance for new Greek finance minister Yaris Varoufakis to formally set out to sceptical colleagues the anti-austerity government's demands for a reduction in Greece's debt.
France 24 says the leaders of the United Nations and the Arab League – Ban Ki-moon and Nabil al-Arabi – have made an urgent appeal to international donors to expedite aid promised to the people of Gaza, following last year's devastating war.
Mexican police have found 61 bodies, including those of children, in an abandoned crematorium in the Pacific resort of Acapulco. El Universal reports the authorities made the grim discovery of bodies covered in white sheets, some piled on top of each other. Acapulco has been beset by drug gang violence but it was not immediately clear whether the bodies were murder victims or whether the corpses were left there when the crematorium closed.
Corriere della Sera announces an Italian policeman who posed as an amiable host on the Couchsurfing.com website has been charged with drugging and raping a 16-year-old Australian girl and may have done the same to up to 15 other women. Dino Maglio, 35, will stand trial in Padua next month on charges of raping a minor with the aggravating circumstance of having administered a narcotic without her knowledge. The teen is understood to have stayed up chatting to Maglio while her mother and younger sister, who were also staying at his apartment, went to bed. After his arrest, Maglio admitted to having spiked the girl's drink and to having sexual intercourse with her, knowing she was a minor. He claimed that the sex had been consensual.
Rome’s homeless are about to get some tender loving care as the Vatican is finishing renovations on public restrooms just off St Peter’s Square which will include three showers and a barber shop for the homeless. Each “homeless pilgrim”, as Vatican Radio called them, will receive a kit including a towel, change of underwear, soap, deodorant, toothpaste, razor and shaving cream. The showers will be open every day but Wednesday and haircuts will be available on Mondays. Pope Francis’s alms-giver, Monsignor Konrad Krajewski, said the project was necessary because the homeless are often shunned for their hygiene. The initiative is being funded by donations and sales of papal parchments.
Metro says supermarkets in the UK have been told to move the flowers from their traditional locations near fruit and vegetables aisles because people were mistaking them for food. In a letter to Britain's biggest grocery stores, health officials said the bulbs were being mistaken for onions and the stems or leaves for Chinese vegetables. Daffodils contain toxic chemicals which are poisonous if ingested, causing severe vomiting.