The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press. The local newspapers are dominated by yesterday's EP elections.
The Sunday Times of Malta reports that turnout for the European Parliament elections was down 4%.
The Malta Independent says turnout was a record low of 74.8%.
MaltaToday says turnout was 4% down but Labour is expected to retain its vote majority.
It-Torca reports how 86,757 chose not to vote yesterday.
Il-Mument shows Simon Busuttil voting yesterday and says turnout was 75%.
KullHadd carries a picture of the prime minister and Mrs Muscat on their way to vote, and also reports how turnout was just below 75%.
Illum says Labour is expected to win a majority of votes in the EP elections, despite a lower turnout.
The overseas press
European elections reach their culmination on “Super Sunday” when the remaining 20 of the EU’s 28 countries go to the polls, with the vote expected to confirm the dominance of pro-European centrists despite a rise in support for the far-right and left. Reuters reports opinion polls suggest at least a quarter of seats in the parliament will go to anti-EU or protest groups, but at least 70 percent will remain with the four mainstream, pro-EU blocs: the centre-left, centre-right, liberals and Greens.
Interfax quotes a Kremlin statement saying German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President François Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin have expressed their desire that today’s presidential election in Ukraine should be held in a calm and peaceful atmosphere. During telephone conversations, the three leaders also stressed the need to intensify the negotiation process involving Russia, the European Union and Ukraine aimed at solving energy problems.
Addressing Syrian refugees in Jordan, Pope Francis said that all parties wanted peace but that the root of the evil was hatred and the arms trade's desire for money. Al Jazeera quotes the pontiff asking, “Who is behind all this and who is giving weapons to people in order to further the conflict?” He urged those present to think about this and pray in their hearts that these criminals would be converted.
Fox News reports the UN Security Council and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon have condemned an attack by the Islamist group al-Shabab on the Somalia parliament, which killed at least 10 people. There are reports the Somali security minister has resigned.
Hurriyet says an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude struck off the coast of northern Greece on Saturday, sending panicked residents into the streets in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria. In Turkey about 270 people were hospitalised, most with minor injuries.
Deutsche Welle reports Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hit out at his critics in Turkey and abroad in a speech in the German city of Cologne. His visit triggered a large street demonstration.
al bawaba says at least two people were killed when rockets fired at a Libyan army base missed their target and struck family homes in Benghazi on Friday night. It is not clear who fired the rockets. Children of the two family members killed in the explosion were injured.
According to CNN, Peter Rodger, an assistant director for the blockbuster “Hunger Games” movie franchise, says his family believed his 22-year-old son, Elliot Rodger, was the gunman who shot dead six people late on Friday. The authorities have not released the identity of the man, who they say died from a gunshot wound to the head following a shootout with police during the rampage in Isla Vista, near the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Security has been stepped up at Jewish sites across Belgium after a gunman shot dead four people at the Jewish Museum in the capital Brussels. La Derniere Heure says a man suspected of being involved in the gunfight has been detained. Interior Minister Joelle Milquet said everything pointed to an anti-Semitic attack.
Journal du Dimanche announces “Winter Sleep”, by the Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, has won the Palme d'Or at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Italian film-maker Alice Rohrwacher was awarded the Grand Prix for “The Wonders”. Britain's Timothy Spall won Best Actor for his role as JMW Turner in Mike Leigh's “Mr Turner” and America's Julianne Moore won Best Actress for her part in David Cronenberg's “Maps to the Stars”.
LBC Radio says four rabbis have been indicted in the US on charges of abducting and torturing Jewish men until they agreed to grant divorces to their estranged wives. They have been accused of kidnapping the men and subjecting them to beatings and stun-gun shocks between 2009 and 2013.They face up to life in prison and a $250,000 (€185,000) fine for each kidnapping count if found guilty.