The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Sunday Times of Malta reports how boathouses in Armier are being rented out to tourists.
MaltaToday reports how a three-year-old boy was injured by a tiger. It also says foreign delegations were forced to get black market euros.
Illum quotes Gozo minister Anton Refalo saying that the Gozo tunnel project should be subject to a referendum in which the vote of Gozitans would have additional weighting.
The Malta independent reports on the Queen's visit and and also reports how a boy was 'mauled' by a tiger.
It-Torca says four 'privileged' Nationalist MPs employed by the government never go to work.
Il-Mument reflects on the Queen's visit. It also says that a man held in Italy on his way to Malta faces Isis-related terrorism charges.
KullHadd says the Commonwealth Local Government Forum will be held here in 2017.
The overseas press
On the eve of a UN summit in France, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take part in rallies around the world today calling for a global agreement to combat climate change. Le Journal du Dimanche says activists in Paris plan to join arms and form a human chain as part of more than 2,000 climate events in one of the biggest days of action on climate change in history.
UISA Today quotes a new UN report which shows that over the past 20 years, 90 per cent of major disasters have been caused by weather, and the United States was the hardest-hit country. Worldwide, there have been 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heat waves, droughts and other weather-related events since 1995. More than 600,000 lives have been lost and 4.1 billion people have been injured, left homeless or in need of emergency assistance. Economic losses are between $250 billion and $300 billion annually.
President Putin has approved a raft of economic sanctions against Turkey in retaliation for the shooting down of a Russian warplane last Tuesday. Pravda says the measures, some of which do not come into force until next year, include a ban on Russian businesses, hiring Turkish nationals and import restrictions on some Turkish goods.
Zaman reports President Erdogan has said he was “truly saddened” by Tuesday’s incident. It was the first partly conciliatory statement from the Turkish leader since the jet’s downing. Turkey insists the plane violated its airspace and was sent repeated warnings to change its course. Moscow says it never left Syrian territory and was fired at without notice.
Chumhuriyet quotes Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu hs pledging to bring to justice the killers of leading pro-Kurdish lawyer. Tahir Elci was shot dead in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir during a battle between police and unidentified gunmen. Two policemen also died. Later, Turkish police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse hundreds of people in Istanbul who were protesting against the killing. A poll for the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reveals that 48 per cent of the German nationals were opposed to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s candidacy for the post after 2017. She enjoys the support of the eastern German residents, with 55 per cent of approvals. Her government’s policy on refugees was viewed as right by 40 per cent of respondents, whereas 47 per cent expressed their dissatisfaction with the approach to the migration issue.
The East African reports Pope Francis on Saturday honored Uganda’s 19th century Christian martyrs and encouraged its 21st century Christian youths to apply their faith to today’s challenges. Nearly a half-million Ugandans turned out to see the pope before he heads to Central African Republic for the final leg of his African journey.
Florida Post says US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ramped up his incendiary rhetoric, claiming that Muslims around the world were “going wild” to cheer the September 11, 2001 attacks. At the weekend rally in Sarasota, Florida, Trump again voiced support for a database to track Muslims in the country.
The Tribune reports two female suicide bombers have carried out attacks in the northern town of Dabanga, killing at least five people, bringing to 100 the people killed in 20 suicide attacks blamed on the Nigerian jihadists since July. This was the first time suicide bombers have attacked the small town separated by only a stream from Nigeria. Boko Haram’s six-year insurgency has left at least 17,000 people dead and made more than 2.6 million homeless.
Jornal do Brasil says the Brazilian health ministry has confirmed a link between a mosquito-borne virus from Africa, Zika Fever, and a high incidence of birth defects. The fever, it said, is behind a spike in cases of micro-encephalitis – an inflammation of the brain contracted in the first months of pregnancy. It has recorded two adult deaths and 739 cases of the disease, which can stunt the growth of the foetus’s head. A World Health Organization team arrives in Brazil next week.
The Ring reports Britain’s Tyson Fury has shocked the boxing world by outpointing Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf to become heavyweight champion of the world. In what was described as “a dour and often messy fight”, Klitschko, whose nine-year reign as champion was brought to an end, simply could not work the challenger out and did not do enough to win. Fury is now the WBA, IBF and WBO champion. He is only Britain’s fifth bona fide heavyweight world champion after Bob Fitzsimmons, Lennox Lewis, Frank Bruno and David Haye.