These are the main stories featured in Wednesday’s newspapers.
The Times of Malta reports Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's first public reaction to Daphne Project allegations concerning his minister Chris Cardona. Dr Muscat told journalists that Dr Cardona "told me what he said in his statement.”
In another story, the newspaper says that according to a global report, Malta’s progress in reaching its United Nations Sustainable Development Goal targets deteriorated with its ranking plummeting eight places.
The Malta Independent and In-Nazzjon say a judge has ordered the Prime Minister and the Justice Minister to testify in a the Opposition leader's Egrant inquiry access case.
MaltaToday reports on a Parliamentary exchange in which Prime Minister Joseph Muscat lashed out at former Opposition leader Simon Busuttil.
L-Orizzont says that the building of Barts Medical School in Gozo has been completed.