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In Lourdes, Pope Leo Confronts Abuse and a French Law
The four-day visit to France ends with a meeting with survivors and a rebuke of assisted dying, as the world press weighs the strategy.
Pope Leo XIV used his French tour to press the Church on clerical abuse and to criticise France's assisted-dying law, drawing wide international coverage.
Marco Di Sante · INTERNATIONAL
Rome Caps Foreign Pupils in Class, and Calabria Counts Who Is Left
A decree banning face coverings and limiting non-Italian-speaking students lands hardest where the register was already thinning.
The Guardian and the BBC report a decree capping foreign pupils and banning the burqa in schools; in Calabria the question is what a classroom needs before it can teach Italian at all.
Saverio Gallo · NATIONAL
Pompeii's Casts Are Not Who the World Thought, DNA Study Finds
International researchers say genetic evidence overturns the Victorian-era assumption that the ash figures were families; Campania's buried city is being read anew.
A DNA study of Pompeii's plaster casts has dismantled the long-held image of the doomed nuclear family, according to international coverage of the research.
Rosaria Esposito · SCIENCE
Venice Raises the Day-Tripper Levy as the World Prices Its Own Visit
Foreign coverage reads the entry fee as a test case for managing mass tourism in a city that keeps losing residents
The world's press reports Venice is raising and extending its day-tripper entry fee, and asks whether a ticket can protect a city from the crowds that pay it.
Tommaso Veronese · REGIONAL
Regional dispatches
Piedmont Hails a Bumper Harvest, Then Cuts the Wine It Will Sell
Growers in Italy's northwest report a strong vintage after extreme heat, but trade headwinds and shifting consumer habits push output down
Piedmont's wine growers are celebrating a bountiful 2026 harvest while deliberately cutting production, citing trade headwinds and changing consumer habits.
Lorenzo Ferraris
A Bumper Harvest in Piedmont, and a Vintage Nobody Is Sure How to Sell
Growers across the north-west report abundant fruit after a hot summer, then move to cut production as trade headwinds and changing habits bite
A bountiful harvest in Piedmont arrives alongside a decision to make less wine, not more, as exporters read a shifting market.
Camille Bréan
The Colosseum Stays Shut, and a Question About Who Works Inside It
Rome's ancient amphitheatre remained closed for a third day after a 22-year-old worker was killed on site overnight
A young worker's death inside the Colosseum has kept one of the world's most visited monuments shut for a third day.
Camille Bréan
A Bumper Harvest, and a Smaller Bottle: Italy's Wine Trade Does the Arithmetic
Piedmont growers celebrate a generous vintage while cutting output, as trade headwinds and shifting habits reshape the market
Italy's winemakers report an abundant 2026 harvest, yet plan to bottle less of it as export demand cools and consumers drink differently.
Giulia Benati
A Bumper Harvest, and a Smaller Bottling
Italy's growers report a strong vintage but plan to cut output, as trade headwinds and changing drinking habits reshape the market
Winegrowers are celebrating a bountiful harvest after extreme heat, then warning they will bottle less of it — a paradox Tuscany knows well.
Costanza Bardi
A Bumper Harvest in Piedmont, and Umbria Reads the Yield
Italian growers celebrate a strong vintage but cut output as trade headwinds and changing habits bite
Italy's winemakers report a bountiful harvest after extreme heat, yet plan to bottle less as exports slow and consumers drink differently.
Niccolò Mariani
In Lourdes, a Pope Meets Abuse Survivors; Assisi Reads the Signal
Leo XIV's French pilgrimage mixes a vast Paris Mass with a private reckoning on clerical abuse
Pope Leo XIV met seven survivors of clergy abuse at Lourdes and urged bishops to stay vigilant, as half a million gathered for Mass in Paris.
Niccolò Mariani
A Bumper Harvest in Piedmont, and Marche Growers Read the Same Ledger
Foreign coverage of Italy's vintage points to heat, trade headwinds and drinkers who want less — pressures the Adriatic hills know well.
Piedmont's growers are celebrating a generous crop while cutting output, a paradox that reads plainly from the Marche's own hillsides.
Elena Marcheggiani
Sandro Mazzola, 83, and the Making of an Italian Footballer
The Guardian's obituary of the Inter forward recalls a career spent at a single club — a loyalty the Marche's own small-firm world still recognises.
Sandro Mazzola, who won two European Cups with Internazionale, has died at 83, The Guardian reports.
Elena Marcheggiani
A Schism Abroad, and Rome Reads Its Own Reckoning
The Vatican's break with the Society of Saint Pius X hangs over Pope Leo XIV's French tour, as the Holy See weighs a traditionalist network it has long tried to recover.
France 24 reports the excommunication of the Society of Saint Pius X has revived a longstanding feud inside the Church as Pope Leo XIV tours France.
Davide Ruspoli
A Bumper Harvest in Italy's Vineyards, and a Smaller Bottle
Growers in Piedmont report a strong vintage after extreme heat, but cut output as trade headwinds and changing habits bite.
Italy's winemakers are celebrating a generous harvest even as they reduce how much wine they make, a paradox that reaches the Apennine interior.
Marco Di Sante
A Biennial of Hands: Es Devlin Curates 500 Artisans in the Venetian Lagoon
The Homo Faber Biennial returns to Venice, with the British designer framing craft as a constellation of islands
The New York Times reports that Es Devlin has gathered works by 500 artisans for the Homo Faber Biennial in the Venetian lagoon, each maker presented as an island of talent.
Eleonora Vanzetti
A Freight Corridor at the Alps, and a Port Watching the Rail
As the world wire reports road and rail disruption through Alpine crossings, Trieste's landlocked hinterland is the question again
When the Alpine passes are the story, the Port of Trieste reads it as a question about rail capacity, not road congestion.
Sergio Madrussan
A Research Institute on the Border, and the European Money It Chases
International science coverage of EU research funding is read in Trieste as a question about small institutions and cross-border consortia
The science press reports the mechanics of European research funding; for a city of institutes on a border, the mechanics are the story.
Sergio Madrussan
Italian Transport Strikes Loom as Genoa Port Braces for Autumn Disruption
Foreign wires flag a week of industrial action across Italy, and the country's largest port watches the calendar
A week of transport strikes flagged by international outlets puts Genoa's container and ferry traffic on notice as autumn logistics season begins.
Marina Doria
Sinner Withdraws From China Open as Knee Problem Lingers
The world number one will not defend his Beijing title, and the foreign tennis press is already asking what it means for the indoor season
Jannik Sinner has pulled out of the China Open as he continues to recover from a knee problem, the BBC reports, leaving the world number one's autumn schedule unclear.
Tobia Marenghi
Vasseur Calls Horner a Distraction as Ferrari's Season Unravels
The Ferrari team principal says the former Red Bull boss is 'looking for a job', and the foreign F1 press is treating it as a story about Maranello's stability
Frederic Vasseur says Christian Horner is proving a distraction for Ferrari by looking for work, as the Italian team's championship campaign draws hostile attention from abroad.
Tobia Marenghi
A Toll System Fails at the Brenner, and the Alps Count the Queue
Austrian and German coverage of the broken lorry toll at the Brenner Pass meets a region that measures its year in freight
When the Brenner toll system failed, the lorries backed up on the Austrian side — and Trentino-Alto Adige read the disruption as its own.
Klara Hofer
Italy's Winemakers Hail a Bumper Harvest, Then Cut It Back
Piedmont reports a strong vintage despite the heat, but growers say trade headwinds and shifting habits mean less wine, not more
A bountiful grape harvest in Piedmont collides with falling demand, and the same arithmetic is being done quietly across Italy's smaller wine regions.
Antonio Petrella
Puglia Reads the Harvest Ledger as Italy's Wine Growers Cut Output
Foreign coverage of a bumper Italian grape crop that growers still decline to bottle lands hard in a region that bets on the bottle, not the bulk.
Italy's wine growers are celebrating a bountiful harvest while cutting production, a paradox Puglia's olive and wine estates know from their own ledgers.
Francesca Lazzari
Taranto's Steelworks and Europe's Fault Lines
Foreign coverage of the far right's rise across Europe is a reminder of where Puglia's hardest industrial argument sits.
As foreign press maps the far right's European breakthroughs, Puglia's own fault line — jobs against health at Taranto — remains the region's unresolved bargain with industry.
Francesca Lazzari
Italy's Winemakers Report a Bumper Harvest, Then Cut Production
A bountiful vintage in Piedmont meets trade headwinds and changing drinking habits, as growers plan to make less wine from more grapes
Italian wine growers are celebrating a strong harvest despite extreme heat, but say they will cut output as export markets and consumer tastes shift.
Pietro Lasorsa
Pope Leo Fills Paris, and the South Reads What a Church Can Still Hold
A visit to secular France, a schism with an ultra-conservative sect, and a meeting with abuse survivors — reported from outside Italy.
Foreign coverage of Pope Leo XIV's four-day tour of France describes a Church courting its old heartlands while confronting abuse and a rebel traditionalist sect.
Saverio Gallo
Pope Leo Ends France Visit With an Abuse Pledge, and Sicily Reads the Signal
The four-day tour took in Lourdes and a Paris Mass the Vatican estimated at 800,000 people, with a schism and a child-abuse reckoning shadowing the trip.
Pope Leo XIV closed a four-day state visit to France by meeting survivors of clerical abuse in Lourdes and urging the Church to confront its record.
Concetta Vassallo
A Decree on Classrooms Reaches Sicily, Where the Rolls Were Already Falling
The government's cap on pupils without fluent Italian and its ban on face coverings in schools are read on an island that has lost children for a decade.
Italy's decree capping pupils without fluent Italian and banning face coverings in schools draws charges of electioneering, and Sicily counts what it already lacks.
Concetta Vassallo
Pope Leo XIV Closes France Visit, and Sardinia Reads Its Own Catholic Map
The four-day tour ends with a Lourdes meeting on abuse and a rebuke of assisted dying, as an island weighs its place in the Church's new geography
Pope Leo XIV's tour of secular France, from a vast Paris Mass to a two-hour meeting with abuse survivors, prompts reflection on Sardinia's own Catholic inheritance.
Gavino Sanna
Pope Leo's France Visit Exposes a Schism Rome Has Not Closed
The Vatican's rupture with the Society of Saint Pius X shadows a four-day state visit, and Italy's own traditionalist networks are watching closely
The excommunication of the Society of Saint Pius X has revived a longstanding feud inside Roman Catholicism just as Pope Leo XIV tours secular France.
Adriana Sole
Opinion
Italy, Seen From the Water
The world's wires keep returning to the same handful of Italian stories, and we read them as a mirror rather than a verdict.
Editorial Board
The Weight of What Is Preserved
Foreign coverage treats Italy's heritage as both a gift and a burden, and the tension it describes is real.
Editorial Board