The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta reports that the Prime Minister has called for a legal review on nightclubs after the incident in Paceville early yesterday in which 74 were hurt. The newspaper also reports how an employee of the Lands Department is being investigated for abusively taking over a farm at Bidnija.
The Malta Independent also leads with the Paceville incident. It also says the Paris police are hunting a man suspected of involvement in the Isis attacks.
In-Nazzjon focuses on comments by Simon Busuttil who expressed concern over a lack of safety in Paceville. It also says the world is in mourning following the Paris attacks.
l-orizzont says Maltese living in Paris have said they are scared, but life goes on.
The overseas press
Le Monde reports French and Belgian police have issued an international arrest warrant for a possible eighth person involved in Friday’s attacks. An alert has gone out for Abdeslam Salah, one of three French brothers who were living in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek. The investigation points to the likelihood of a team led by French nationals, based in Belgium.
Euronews reports the manhunt came as France detained seven people for questioning and Belgian officials detained seven more in connection with the siege that killed at least 129 people. The international dragnet and investigation now stretches from the Aegean Sea to the teeming Paris suburbs. At the same time, France responded to an act of terrorism it blamed on the Islamic State with airstrikes on the group’s Syrian stronghold at Raqqa.
World leaders vowed a vigorous response to the Islamic State group’s terror spree in Paris as they opened a two-day meeting in Turkey on Sunday, with President Barack Obama calling the violence an “attack on the civilized world” and Russian President Vladimir Putin urging “global efforts” to confront the threat. But, AP reports, beyond the tough talk and calls for action, there was little indication of how leaders intended to escalate the assault on the extremist group.
Liberation reports anti-Islam protesters armed with flares and banners reading ‘Throw out Islamists’ descended on a quiet vigil being held for the victims of the Paris terror attacks in Lille. Far-right demonstrators set off flares into the crowd of mourners after Front National leader Marine Le Pen declared French people were no longer safe and called for France to take back control of its borders.
Senior Iraqi intelligence officials had warned members of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group of imminent assaults by the militant organization just one day before last week’s deadly attacks in Paris, The Associated Press has learned. Iraqi intelligence sent a dispatch saying the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had ordered an attack on coalition countries fighting against them in Iraq and Syria, as well as on Iran and Russia, through bombings or other attacks in the days ahead.
The Daily Mirror announces Britain will boost its intelligence agency staff by 15 per cent and more than double spending on aviation security to counter the increasing threat from Islamist militants. Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday he had decided to increase resources in the wake of the growing number of plots against Britain and recent militant attacks, including those in Paris and Tunisia.
Libya Herald quotes sources saying Abu Nabil al Anbari, leader of the Libyan branch of the Islamic State, has not have been killed in a US raid in the North African country. The sources said he was not among 10 fighters of the caliphate killed in an air raid in the Fataieh, south-east of the city, where the militants had taken refuge after losing control of Derna in June.
Haaretz reports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced his government had given the green light to a proposal allowing more than 9,000 Ethiopians to settle in Israel. The Ethiopians in question, the last members of a group known as Falash Mura, claim Jewish ancestry even though they themselves are Christians, having converted in the 18th and 19th centuries. For this reason, they are not eligible for Israeli citizenship.
According to Irrawaddy, Myanmar President Thein Sein has said Aung San Suu Kyi’s historic polls win in a thumping landslide are the consequence of his government’s reforms. He vowed a smooth transition of power.
Hollywood Reporter announces “Spectre” and “The Peanuts Movie” spent their second weekends at the top of the charts once again. In limited release, Angelina Jolie Pitt’s “By The Sea” – filmed in Malta – got off to a rocky start. The marital drama earned a gloomy per-location average of $9,544.
France Football reports Hungary’s national soccer team has qualified for the 2016 European UEFA championship for the first time since 1986. The achievement follows a 3-1 aggregate win over Norway at Groupama Arena in Budapest. The other three playoffs will be decided today and tomorrow when Ireland host Bosnia-Herzegovina after earning a 1-1 draw in the first leg. Ukraine will travel to Slovenia tomorrow, while Denmark will be striving to overturn a 2-1 deficit at home to neighbouring Sweden.