Vatican says lower lobe of the 71-year-old pontiff's right lung was removed; further tests will establish whether the cancer has spread
The Vatican said Pope Leo XIV was diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung at Rome's Gemelli hospital.
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A year after the EU's digital border system began, industry bodies say waits of up to five hours are unacceptable.
Europe's airports and airlines associations have called on EU authorities to ease congestion at Schengen external borders, a year into the EES rollout.
Sergio Madrussan396 words
Molise has spent a generation watching its young leave for oncology wards in Rome — a wire story about a papal adenocarcinoma lands differently here
The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer. In a region with one of Italy's oldest populations and no radiotherapy unit of its own, the diagnosis reads as a familiar itinerary.
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The Guardian calls it the Champions League's result of the night; Inter's defence is the story the foreign press takes away.
A 20-year-old forward's hat-trick leaves Inter beaten 4-3 at home, and the foreign wires lead on the collapse rather than the occasion.
Tobia Marenghi400 words
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Lorenzo Ferraris — “Reporting Italy from the Turin newsroom”
Pope Leo has lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said, after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung in a 90-minute operation at Gemelli.
Lorenzo Ferraris · 560 words
European airports and airlines have called on EU authorities to ease congestion at Schengen external borders a year after the EES digital entry system began.
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The Editorial Board on what the week looks like from outside.
Editorial Board
Today's foreign coverage of Italy runs from a papal diagnosis to bedbugs on a grounded jet and a cave rescue in Sardinia — and the mix itself is the argument.
Editorial Board
A pope's illness is reported everywhere at once, and in that simultaneity we can see how the world still needs Rome as a place where meaning is decided.