The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta quotes Simon Busuttil saying the PN will deliver change which Labour failed to bring. In-Nazzjon also leads with yesterday's PN mass meeting.
The Malta Independent says huge waves caused cars to crash into each other in Cirkewwa.
l-orizzont says the MFSA has taken the 'necessary measures' against official Keith Zahra, who the newspaper describes as a PN 'spy'.
The overseas press
A jubilant Alexis Tsipras has vowed to continue fighting for his country’s pride and to quickly form a coalition government after his left-wing Syriza party comfortably won Greece’s third national vote this year. Ta’ Nea reports that six seats shy of an absolute majority, Tsipras said he would form a government with his previous coalition partner, the right-wing Independent Greeks of Panos Kammenos, who stand to win 10 parliamentary seats.
Meanwhile, Sputnik says Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem welcomed the new Greek government. On Twitter, he added that Eurozone finance ministers expected the newly-formed government to proceed with carrying out reform process.
CNN reports Pope Francis has called on society to protect the “smallest” and most vulnerable, including the unborn. Speaking spontaneously to a group of Cuban nuns, priests, seminarians and bishops, Francis said that “Jesus shines” in the lives of neglected and marginalised people, like those who suffer from degenerative diseases.
Earlier on Sunday, Pope Francis met briefly with former Cuban President Fidel Castro at his home in Havana. Avvenire says the encounter was “familial and informal” and that the two had discussed world affairs and religion. The Pontiff then held a longer meeting with Fidel’s brother, current President Raul Castro.
Meanwhile, according to Il Tempo, diplomats are working overtime to arrange a meeting between the Pope and Vladimir Putin on the side-line of the UN General Assembly. Francis is set to take the world stage on Friday to press his agenda on migration, the environment and religious persecution while more than 100 world leaders listen in. The Russian President will speak just hours after him. Diplomats are hoping the Pope may visit Moscow next year.
A Republican candidate for the US presidency has said Islam is incompatible with the American constitution. Responding to a question during an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Ben Carson said he would never agree to a Muslim becoming a US president. Carson’s comments drew strong criticism from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Arab-American Institute, the later saying Carson’s views were “downright stupid”.
As the flow of migrants and refugees through the Balkans to Western Europe continued through the weekend, Deutsche Welle quotes German Chancellor Angela Merkel warning her country would not shelter migrants who move for solely economic reasons.
ABC reports Australia’s new Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull has indicated that he is in no hurry to sever the nation’s constitutional links to Britain by appointing an Australian president as head of state. Turnbull led the Australian Republican Movement, an advocacy group, when it failed at a 1999 referendum to convince Australians to replace Queen Elizabeth II as Australia’s head of state.