The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times of Malta reports how the Pope commemorated migrant deaths at sea.
The Malta Independent says the Pope blasted indifference over migrant deaths.
In-Nazzjon reports on a difficult situation for workers in the health sector with low grade workers bullying those above them.
l-orizzont says 8,412 transfers took place under the three last PN administrations.
The overseas press
There has been a strong world reaction to yesterday’s violence in Egypt which has left 51 people dead and more than 400 others injured outside the Egyptian military headquarters when supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi demonstrated near the Republican Guard building in Cairo. Al Ahram reports protesters saying the troops attacked their encampment without provocation just after dawn prayers. The military, meanwhile, said it only fired warning shots and tear gas – blaming armed civilians on the site for the bloodshed.
Deutsche Welle says the European Union has condemned the massacre. It quotes EU foreign policy spokesman Michael Mann saying the EU had no plans to change its aid regime but added that it was keeping its aid to Egypt under constant review. “The most important thing is to return to the democratic process as soon as possible,” he said. Germany, Britain and Turkey echoed the same sentiments.
On the home front, Al-Messa reports yesterday's violence brought talks aimed at forming an interim Egyptian government between the military and the Islamist al-Nour party to a halt. However, a spokesman for Egypt's interim presidency said that the violent clashes would not derail efforts to form a temporary government. It moved to calm tensions in the country by proposing new elections early next year.
Bloomberg quotes International Monetary Fund Director Christine Lagarde saying lack of growth in the eurozone makes it vulnerable to new market tensions. At the end of a Eurogroup meeting, Lagarde said economic growth was still slow and unemployment too high despite the European Central Bank's bond-buying programme and the progress made so far. Meanwhile, the eurozone finance ministers decided that Greece must enforce the reforms agreed with the Troika by July 19 in order to receive the next tranche of funds. Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the first instalment will be €2.5 billion, to be followed by a further €0.5 billion in October.
The governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua have confirmed they have received official asylum requests from the fugitive American intelligence analyst Edward Snowden. El Universal reports President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela said it was now down to Snowden to decide when to fly in.
The Montreal Gazette says investigators combing through the rubble left by the derailment and explosion of a runaway tanker-train that devastated a small Quebec town found eight more bodies on Monday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 13. Quebec Police Lieutenant Michel Brunet said that the fatalities in Saturday's rail disaster in Lac-Megantic, about 150 miles east of Montreal, is expected to rise as 50 people remain missing.
The Associated Press reports that investigators trying to understand why Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash-landed are now focusing on the actions of an experienced pilot learning his way around a new aircraft, fellow pilots who were supposed to be monitoring him and why no one noticed that the plane was coming in too slow. Authorities also reviewed the initial rescue efforts after fire officials acknowledged that one of their trucks may have run over one of the two Chinese teenagers killed in the crash at San Francisco International Airport. The students were the accident's only fatalities.
Former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was able to hide in Pakistan for nine years due to the “collective failure” of state military and intelligence authorities, a leaked Pakistani government report has revealed. The report, released by Al Jazeera after being suppressed by the Pakistani government, also outlines how “routine” incompetence at every level of civil governance structure allowed the once world's most wanted man to move to six different locations within the country.
A new study links heavy air pollution from coal burning to shorter lives in northern China. China Daily says researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of five-and-a-half years less than their southern counterparts because they breathed dirtier air.
France 24 announces that5 the head of the French branch of radical topless feminist group Femen, Ukrainian Inna Shevchenko, has been granted political asylum in France on fears that she would face persecution in Ukraine for her political activities. The 23-year-old had sparked outrage in her homeland after she sawed down a large wooden cross that stood in the centre of Kiev in protest at the prosecution of the Russian band Pussy Riot and President Vladimir Putin’s close relations with the Russian Orthodox Church. Fearing arrest, she fled to Paris through Warsaw, using a tourist visa, and has remained in France since.