Times of Malta says a record number of residence permits were issued last year.

 

The Malta Independent says the EU is seeking agreement to share 160,000 migrants. It also says MEP David Casa is asking the EU to investigate the hasty power station procurement process. 

 

In-Nazzjon leads with the state of the union address by European Commission president Jean Claude Junker, which focused on the need for compulsory sharing of migrants.

 

l-orizzont says Malta had the second best economic growth in the EU. It also says theft from Sliema houses decreased in the first half of this year.

 

 

Euronews announces Danish police ordered the suspension of all rail services to and from Germany as hundreds of migrants refused to disembark from trains arriving from Denmark’s southern neighbour, demanding to be let continue onto Sweden instead.  

Meanwhile, Radio Srbija says some 500 migrants broke through police lines in Hungary near the main crossing point from Serbia as tensions between police and migrants are rising. The incident took place at the flashpoint town of Röszke where migrants have to wait at a collection point before being taken to a nearby centre for registration. 

AFP reports the EU is setting up a €1.8-billion trust fund to help curb the influx of desperate migrants from Africa. European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker told the European Parliament in Strasbourg the new fund would address the root causes of destabilisation, forced displacement and illegal migration by creating lasting stability.

Sputnik says leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine have agreed to a high-level summit on October 4 to discuss the implementation of a peace deal for eastern Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday conferred with the three other leaders about the weapons pull-out, local elections, offering a special status for the rebel regions and other issues related to February’s peace deal.

Six British nationals – the Daily Mirror, the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, The Times, The Independent and i give prominence to a new research that suggests Alzheimer’s could be passed between people during blood transfusions, dental work or contaminated surgical instruments. Leading brain surgeons have said the study must be taken seriously.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in London for talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron as hundreds of pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli demonstrators clashed outside Downing Street. Metro says police intervened to break up the scuffles as around 500 protesters gathered outside No 10 Downing Street.

Al Jazeera reports Al-Nusra Front announced it had captured a major airbase in northwestern Syria after a two-year siege. The group has also announced that it had killed at least 100 government forces and captured 60 others, in addition to capturing large quantities of weapons.

The pilot credited with saving the lives of dozens of passengers on a burning British Airways plane said it was the first time in 42 years of flying that he’d ever faced a life-threatening emergency, and it happened on one of his last before retirement. “It’s safe to say I’m finished flying,” Chris Henkey told NBC News. The 63-year-old pilot was cheered by his passengers after they made it back to the terminal, according to The Guardian.

A female Ryanair flight attendant who was accused of harassing Irish singing duo Jedward on board a flight by asking for their autograph has lost her case against dismissal. The Irish Independent says the Employment Appeals Tribunal heard Karolina Jabczuga, on Christmas Eve in 2009, approached Jedward who were on board and asked for their autographs. She was aware that, per the company manual, cabin crew were not to talk to celebrity passengers.

Ansa says archaeologists excavating a palazzo on the Quirinale Hill have discovered a well-preserved rectangular home, complete with wooden supports and a roof, proving that the ancient city was much bigger than previously thought. Officials said the area had long been thought to have only been used as a necropolis, with ancient Rome’s residential zone further south and centred around the Roman Forum.

Indian Express reports police are investigating allegations that a Saudi diplomat held two Nepali women hostage in his residence, and raped them for several months before they were rescued by after a police tip-off from an NGO. The two women, a 44 year old mother and her 20 year old daughter, were apparently hired by the Saudi official as domestic help in his residence in New Delhi. The embassy has denied all the allegations brought against him.

A Chinese man bit the nose of his wife who did not answer his phone calls and ate it. The People’s Daily explains the man had tried to contact his wife who worked night shift. The following morning, the furious husband visited the wife and attacked her “in a brutal manner”. She will now have to undergo a series of surgical operations. The man is on the run.