The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.

The Sunday Times of Malta says the government secretly extended a €360 million State loan guarantee for the new power station on the eve of the general election. In another story, it says a group of disillusioned Nationalist Party MPs are seriously considering calling it a day from politics by not contesting the next general election.

Illum says Malta has the highest rate of syphilis infected people among EU states.

MaltaToday says the police are considering links between fuel smuggling rings and the arson on a lawyer’s car in October.

The Malta Independent says that investigators into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder are still sifting through data recovered from electronic devices.

It-Torċa says former Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi has still not apologised for political discrimination under his leadership.

In-Nazzjon says that the fight for the Labour Party’s leadership once Joseph Muscat resigns was intensifying between Ian Borg and Robert Abela.

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