Good morning. These are the headlines in local newspapers this Saturday.

The Times of Malta leads with news of renewed tensions between Italy and Malta over migration, with a sea resecue vessel caught in the middle.

The newspaper also reports on the case of a 15-month-old infant who was hurt when a petard landed on her pushchair during a feast in Gozo, sending the stroller up in flames.

The Malta Independent also leads with news from the migration stand-off between Malta and Italy. The newspaper also quotes a geologist who has suggested diverting traffic to Rabat through an old railway tunnel, thereby saving mature trees expected to be uprooted as part of a road widening project.

L-Orizzont writes that an informal migration summit called by EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is being boycotted by some member states over disagreements about migration policy.

The paper also reports on gender discrepancies in suicide rates, with men six time more likely to take their own lives than women.

In-Nazzjon reports on allegations that an OPM official spearheaded a Libyan visa racket, writing that Castille “sold 88,000 Schengen visas in Libya.”

The newspaper also reports that the President of Malta and Leader of the Opposition have both used the same arguments to criticise embryo freezing laws.

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