The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Sunday Times of Malta reports how the French President said the carnage in Paris was an act of war by Isis.
The theme is also taken up by the other newspapers.
The Malta Independent on Sunday says “It’s war” and also reports how security in Malta was beefed up as a precautionary measure.
It-Torca focus on the experience of Maltese who were close to the Paris bombings and Il-Mument also highlights solidarity show by the Maltese with Parisans yesterday.
MaltaToday leads with how the US killed an Isis leader in Libya.
In other stories, The Sunday Times of Malta reports that cracks have been found in concrete of the Mater Dei Hospital car park.
The overseas press
As French President Hollande promised a “merciless” response to the Paris terrorist attacks that killed 129 people, AFP reports the police have taken into custody the father and brother of a French gunman and searched their homes through a severed fingertip.
Meanwhile, according to the iTele TV, French police have detained a 29-year-old French national who allegedly was holding hostages in the Parisian Bataclan concert hall. The Mail On Sunday claims two of the suicide bombers are thought to have got into France by posing as refugees from Syria.
Three people were arrested in a Brussels counter-terrorism raid over the attacks in Paris. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel told RTBF one of the detained men may have been in Paris while the attacks were taking place. Belgium opened its own investigation into the tragedy following reports that Belgian nationals died in the assault.
Earlier, the Greek newspaper Ethnos quoted Civil Protection Minister Nikos Toskasa saying that one of the suicide bombers had gone to France last month through Greece. Sources told the paper, it was very likely that a second suspect had also passed through Greece.
CNN reports President Obama finished the urgent US National Security Council meeting in the wake of multiple terror attacks in the French capital and left for Turkey to take part in the G20 meetings in Antalya. President Hollande cancelled his participation in the G20 summit following the terrorist attacks.
BFMTV says the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo team has issued a statement condemning the Paris attacks. It expressed dismay and indignation, shared the grief of the victims and their loved ones and expressed support for them.
Following the attacks in Paris the distributors of the film “Made in France” have decided to postpone its release, scheduled for Thursday. Le Journal du Dimanche noted that the Boukhrief Nicolas film tells of a journalist who infiltrated a jihadist cell that wants to sow chaos in the French capital. The poster of the film shows a Kalashnikov superimposed on the Eiffel Tower.
A fresh round of Syria talks might take place on the sidelines of the upcoming 2015 UN Climate Conference in Paris, a diplomatic source at the Syrian talks in Vienna told Sputnik on Saturday. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius emphatically denied reports the conference would be cancelled in the wake of deadly attacks that hit the French capital.
Earlier in the day, a fresh round of international talks on Syrian reconciliation, which involve Russia, the United States, Iran and UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura was held in Vienna. ORF reports the negotiators are expected to meet again within a month to review progress in the implementation of ceasefire in the war-torn country, as well as the beginning of the political process.
Asia Today says security forces in the South Korean capital Seoul have clashed with protesters during one of the country’s biggest street rallies in recent years. Police used tear gas and water cannons against demonstrators demanding the resignation of conservative President Park Geun-hye, the country’s first female president who is pushing through controversial plans to make labour markets more flexible by giving employers more leeway in dismissing workers.
Mail & Guardian reports South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has begun serving community service, a month after the Paralympian was granted parole after serving one year of his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. In his first public appearance since then, he reported to a police station in Pretoria wearing sunglasses and carrying a backpack. He is serving the rest of his sentence under house arrest at his uncle’s home in the city.
Russia’s sports minister Vitaly Mutko has announced he has agreed a plan with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to have his country’s athletics team cleared for the Olympics in three months. Pravda says Russia has set out a three-month road map to clean up its act, with the nation’s Olympic Committee spearheading efforts to ensure a doping scandal does not prevent honest athletes from competing at the 2016 Olympics.
The Mail says guests in Kerala must have thought of seeing double when Indian twins Dinker and Dilraj Varikkassery married Reena and Reema, also twins. And that was not all: the ceremony was celebrated by Rezi and Roy Manaparambil, a pair of priests, also twins and the couple was accompanied to the altar by bridesmaids and pageboy strictly twins. Dinker, 32, has only one regret: there were not enough twins at the wedding.