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Italy's Prisons Were Overcrowded. Then the Heat Arrived.
The New York Times reports inmates sleeping on concrete floors as temperatures approach 90F, with even guards complaining
The New York Times reports that Italy's already overcrowded prisons have been pushed further by summer heat, with inmates sleeping on concrete cell floors.
Lorenzo Ferraris · NATIONAL
Pope Leo XIV Heads to France, and Rome Reads the Trip From the Vatican's Shadow
Le Monde previews the first official papal visit to France, September 25 to 28, as the capital's church-and-state balance comes under fresh scrutiny
The first American pope travels to Paris, Lourdes and Metz this week, a visit the foreign press is treating as the defining test of his young papacy.
Davide Ruspoli · INTERNATIONAL
Meloni's School Veil Ban and Foreign Student Cap Draw Scrutiny
The Local and CBS report the Italian Prime Minister's pledge, and the questions foreign coverage is asking about what drives it
Foreign outlets report Meloni's pledge to ban face coverings in schools and cap non-Italian pupils per class, and press on the politics behind it.
Concetta Vassallo · NATIONAL
A Venice Ovation, Then Death Threats: The NAZA Documentary's Two Audiences
The Gaza film won acclaim in the Sala Grande and vitriol in Israel, the Guardian reports, as the festival circuit becomes a political arena
A documentary that brought the Venice film festival audience to its feet has brought its directors death threats in Israel, according to the Guardian.
Eleonora Vanzetti · CULTURE
Regional dispatches
Prada Puts the Skirt First in Milan, and Piedmont's Mills Take Note
The Guardian reads Miuccia Prada's collaboration with Raf Simons as a return to tailoring — a signal for the textile districts that supply it
Prada gave skirts star billing at Milan Fashion Week, a collection the Guardian says spins gold again for the house — and a reminder of where Italian fashion's supply chain actually sits.
Lorenzo Ferraris
Italy's Prisons, Overcrowded and Now Overheated
The New York Times reports inmates sleeping on concrete floors as temperatures approach 90F, with guards joining the complaints
Foreign coverage of Italy's prison system has shifted from crowding figures to the physical conditions inside, as summer heat compounds both.
Klara Hofer
A Dolomites Language Holds On, and Sardinia Reads Its Own Case
France 24 reports that 30,000 Ladin speakers keep an ancient tongue alive amid millions of Alpine tourists
France 24's report on Ladin survival in the Dolomites speaks directly to Sardinia, where a minority language faces the same demographic undertow.
Gavino Sanna
Ladin: a Dolomites language the world press rediscovers
France 24 reports 30,000 speakers holding to Europe's oldest minority tongue as mass tourism presses the valleys
Foreign coverage of Ladin in the Dolomites lands differently in a region that has spent seventy years making minority language rights work.
Sergio Madrussan
A Language the Mountains Keep, and the Interior Watches
France 24 reports on Ladin in the Dolomites, where 30,000 speakers hold a minority tongue as tourism swells around them
France 24's report on Ladin in the Dolomites is a study in how a small language survives the crowds that come to look at the landscape.
Niccolò Mariani
A Language Spoken by 30,000, and the Mountains That Keep It
France 24 reports on Ladin, one of Europe's oldest minority tongues, as Dolomites tourism swells around its speakers
In the Dolomites, roughly 30,000 people speak Ladin, a language France 24 describes as among the oldest minority tongues in Europe.
Adriana Sole
Italy's Prisons Were Overcrowded. Then They Overheated.
Foreign coverage describes inmates sleeping on concrete floors as summer heat compounds a long-standing capacity crisis
The New York Times reports that as temperatures approach 90F in Italian prisons, inmates sleep on concrete cell floors and even guards complain.
Saverio Gallo
Italy's Prisons Overheat, and the South Feels It First
The New York Times reports inmates sleeping on concrete floors as temperatures approach 90F, with guards joining the complaints
A New York Times dispatch describes Italian prisons pushed past their limits by heat and overcrowding, a strain the south knows well.
Concetta Vassallo
Prada Puts the Skirt First, and the Foreign Critics Take Note
The Guardian reads Milan Fashion Week through Miuccia Prada, Raf Simons and a collection built on skirts rather than trousers or dresses
Milan Fashion Week's most discussed collection, as the British press saw it, began with a skirt and worked outward from there.
Tommaso Veronese
Ladin Holds On in the Dolomites as Visitors Multiply
France 24 reports 30,000 speakers of one of Europe's oldest minority languages, and a valley that reads its own autonomy in the story
A France 24 report on Ladin, spoken by some 30,000 people in the Dolomites, lands close to home for Italy's other Alpine linguistic minorities.
Camille Bréan
Italy's Prisons, Already Overcrowded, Now Overheated
The New York Times reports inmates sleeping on concrete floors as temperatures approach 90F, with guards joining the complaints
The New York Times reports that Italy's already overcrowded prisons have been pushed further by summer heat, with inmates sleeping on cell floors.
Camille Bréan
Prada Puts the Skirt at the Centre of Milan Fashion Week
The Guardian reports Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons built the collection around skirts, not trousers or dresses
The Guardian's Milan Fashion Week dispatch says Prada gave skirts star billing, a formula the house has made its own under Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons.
Beatrice Comolli
In the Dolomites, a 30,000-Strong Minority Holds Its Ground
France 24 reports on Ladin, one of Europe's oldest minority languages, as visitor numbers in the mountains keep climbing
Foreign coverage of the Dolomites has turned from the peaks to the people who live beneath them, and to a language spoken by roughly 30,000.
Klara Hofer
Pula's Roman stones lit anew, an hour down the Adriatic coast
Euronews reports contemporary light art transforming a 2,000-year-old Roman city on the Istrian peninsula
A light-art project in Roman Pula is the kind of cross-border cultural story Trieste reads as its own neighbourhood.
Sergio Madrussan
Italy's Prisons, Already Overcrowded, Now Overheated
The New York Times reports inmates sleeping on concrete cell floors as temperatures approach 90F, with guards joining the complaints
Italy's prison system, long strained by overcrowding, has been pushed further by summer heat, with the New York Times reporting inmates sleeping on concrete floors.
Marina Doria
Prada Puts the Skirt First in Milan, and the Plain Reads the Signal
The Guardian reports Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons built their Milan Fashion Week collection around the skirt, not the trouser or the dress
Milan Fashion Week opened with a Prada collection the Guardian describes as built on the skirt, a formula the house has returned to under Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons.
Giulia Benati
Ladin, the Dolomites' Ancient Tongue, Holds On Amid the Crowds
France 24 reports that 30,000 people in the Dolomites still speak a language few outside the valleys understand
In the Dolomites, millions of visitors pass through each year, but only about 30,000 inhabitants speak Ladin, one of Europe's oldest minority languages.
Costanza Bardi
Italy's Prisons, Overcrowded and Now Overheated, Draw Foreign Scrutiny
The New York Times reports inmates sleeping on concrete floors as summer temperatures near 90F
A New York Times report describes Italian prisoners sleeping on concrete cell floors in the heat, with even prison guards joining the complaints.
Costanza Bardi
A Dolomites Language Holds On, and Central Italy Takes Note
France 24 reports that 30,000 Ladin speakers keep an ancient tongue alive amid millions of Alpine visitors.
France 24's report on Ladin in the Dolomites raises a question the Apennines know well: what keeps a small language alive when the young leave.
Elena Marcheggiani
Italy's Prisons Overheated as the Summer Ran Long
The New York Times reports inmates sleeping on concrete floors as temperatures approached 90F, with guards complaining too.
The New York Times reports that Italy's overcrowded prisons overheated this summer, with inmates sleeping on cell floors and even guards protesting conditions.
Elena Marcheggiani
Italy's Prisons Were Overcrowded. Then They Overheated.
The New York Times reports inmates sleeping on concrete floors as temperatures near 90F, with guards joining the complaints
Foreign coverage of Italy's prison system turns on a summer of heat and crowding, a combination the NYT says has pushed inmates onto cell floors.
Davide Ruspoli
A Language Held in the Dolomites, and the Question It Puts to the Apennines
France 24 reports that 30,000 Ladin speakers are refusing to let Europe's oldest minority tongue fade as tourism swells around them
Foreign coverage of the Ladin valleys in the Dolomites raises a question the Abruzzo interior knows well: what keeps a mountain community alive once the young have gone.
Marco Di Sante
A Language the Mountains Keep: Ladin Holds On in the Dolomites
France 24 reports that 30,000 speakers sustain Europe's oldest minority tongue. Molise's Albanian and Croatian villages read the same arithmetic.
France 24 finds 30,000 Ladin speakers holding their language against the tourist tide. Molise, which keeps two minority tongues of its own, knows the maths.
Antonio Petrella
Italy's Prisons Overheated, and the South Feels It First
The New York Times reports inmates sleeping on concrete floors as temperatures near 90F, with guards joining the complaints
Foreign coverage of Italy's prison crisis turns on heat and overcrowding, a combination the Mezzogiorno knows from its own institutions.
Rosaria Esposito
Prada Puts the Skirt First, and Milan Takes Note
The Guardian reports Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons building the collection around a single garment, with trousers and dresses sidelined
Milan Fashion Week opens with Prada giving star billing to the skirt, a choice the foreign press reads as both personal and commercial.
Rosaria Esposito
Puglia's Olive Harvest Opens Under a Harder Sun
As Italy's prisons story puts the country's extreme heat in the foreign press, the South's growers read the same forecast against next year's oil
The New York Times reports Italian inmates sleeping on concrete floors as temperatures near 90F. In Puglia, the same heat lands on the olive harvest.
Francesca Lazzari
The Sagra Circuit, as the Foreign Press Lists Italy's October Tables
The Local's guide to Italy's autumn food festivals is a reminder of what the South sells best: a season, a square, a plate
The Local has published its October guide to Italy's sagre. For the South, the food festival is not folklore — it is shoulder-season tourism.
Francesca Lazzari
Prada Puts the Skirt at the Centre in Milan, and a Southern Mill Watches
The Guardian reports a collection built on skirts rather than trousers or dresses, as Milan Fashion Week opens
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons built their Milan show around the skirt, the Guardian reports, a choice read with interest in Italy's southern textile towns.
Pietro Lasorsa
A Minority Language Holds On in the Dolomites, as the South Counts Its Own
France 24 reports that 30,000 Ladin speakers keep an ancient tongue alive amid millions of Alpine visitors
France 24 reports that some 30,000 people in the Dolomites still speak Ladin, one of Europe's oldest minority languages, as tourism swells around them.
Pietro Lasorsa
Opinion
The Language the Mountains Kept
France 24's report on Ladin in the Dolomites reminds us that Italy's smallest tongues survive by being spoken, not by being protected.
Editorial Board
Heat Behind the Wall
The New York Times' account of overheated, overcrowded Italian prisons asks what a country owes to those it has removed from view.
Editorial Board