The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Sunday Times of Malta reports that Austin Gatt is facing a tax probe on his Swiss bank account. 23,000 an’s wins in two VAT lotteries in a week.
The Malta Independent on Sunday says the European Council is questioning Malta stability and reform programme.
MaltaToday says secret chats hint at conspiracy against former commissioner John Dalli.
Il-Mument says Parliamentary Secretary Franco Mercieca made more than €50,000 from private practice since the general election.
It-Torca says €16,000 in overtime were made in the EUPA agency within the Education Ministry despite withdrawal of EU funds.
Illum says the prime minister is angry over the state of the health sector.
KullHadd says the former government inaugurated several projects which were heavily in debt.
The overseas press
Further protests have erupted across Brazil yesterday despite conciliatory remarks by President Dilma Rousseff, who pledged to improve public services and fight harder against corruption. O Globo reports some 60,000 people rallied in the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte as a Japan-Mexico match was under way as part of the Confederations Cup international football tournament, a dress rehearsal for next year's World Cup. In Salvador, where Brazil faced, a small crowd of around 200 also protested. Other protests were held in a dozen cities, including Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.On the pitch, Brazil kept up their perfect tournament record of three wins, beating Italy 4-2 in the match to avoid a tough semi-final against Spain. In the evening's other match, Mexico beat Japan 2-1. Tonight, Spain play Nigeria and Uruguay face minnows Tahiti in the last group-phase games of the tournament.
Chumhurriyet says Turkish riot police have used water cannons to disperse thousands of protesters in Taskim Square in Istanbul, in the first clash there for a week. Crowds that gathered to commemorate three people killed in earlier protests threw red carnations towards the police lines.
Meanwhile, according to Zaman, a court in Ankara has formally charged 22 of 25 people arrested during protests in which five people have been killed and more than 5,000 injured. The other three were released on probation. All of the suspects were arrested during protests following a police crackdown on a peaceful sit-in in Istanbul's Gezi Park May 27. What started out as a protest to save the park from becoming a shopping center grew into anti-government protests throughout Turkey.
Gulf News reports world powers supporting Syria's rebels have decided to provide them with urgent military aid so they could counter “brutal attacks” by the Assad regime and “protect the Syrian people”. The pledge came as foreign ministers from 11 countries met in Qatar's capital, Doha, to participate in the Friends of Syria conference.
The Washington Post reports Obama administration officials have publicly increased pressure on Hong Kong to move quickly to arrest Edward Snowden, a week after US officials asked its government to detain the admitted leaker of documents about top-secret surveillance programmes.
Huffington Post quotes President Obama saying he would outline a national plan next Tuesday to reduce carbon emissions to prepare the US of the impacts of climate change and led global efforts to fight it. Obama has said repeatedly he would tackle climate change, but has been blocked by Congress. He is believed to be planning to pass the new measures by executive action, meaning he will bypass Congress.
ABC reports Facebook was “upset and embarrassed” that a software bug resulted in the phone numbers and email addresses of some six million users being improperly shared. But the social network says no financial or other information was revealed to others, and there is “no evidence that this bug has been exploited maliciously”. Facebook says affected users are being notified by email.
Al-Ayyam says celebrations have erupted across the Palestinian territories at news that a singer from the Gaza Strip has won the Arab Idol talent TV show. Mohammed Assaf, 23, was declared the winner on Saturday evening, a day after he competed in a final against two other singers from Egypt and Syria. His last solo song, performed on Friday, had a political edge, asking for the Palestinian traditional scarf to be raised and calling for reconciliation, the BBC's Yolande Knell reports from Gaza City.