Tornadoes Strike Marsala, Injuring Dozens on Sicily's Western Coast

Two funnels came ashore near Marsala and moved inland toward Trapani, damaging homes, cars and a school

A rare double tornado struck western Sicily on Friday, injuring dozens and leaving a trail of damage through Marsala and Petrosino.

Concetta Vassallo · NATIONAL

Meloni's Electoral Overhaul Clears Parliament as Opposition Turns to the Courts

A secret ballot, a 42% bonus-seat threshold and a promised legal challenge frame the next Italian election

Italy's parliament has approved a reform granting bonus seats to winning blocs, and opposition parties say they will fight it in court before the 2027 vote.

Davide Ruspoli · NATIONAL

A Sardinian Mountain Village Joins the Longevity Map, and the Island Reads It Closely

The Guardian reports that in Bolotana, 13 percent of women who reach 70 live on to a century, a finding that lands differently in a region losing its young

A study of centenarians in a small Sardinian mountain village has drawn fresh international attention to the island's demography — and to the question of who remains to inherit it.

Gavino Sanna · SCIENCE

Verstappen Takes Singapore Pole as Ferraris Fill the Rest of the Top Four

Red Bull's sprint win and qualifying sweep leave Ferrari chasing from second and third, with Antonelli fourth and Russell out of the sprint on lap one

Max Verstappen beat both Ferraris to pole in Singapore, with Charles Leclerc second, Lewis Hamilton third and Kimi Antonelli fourth.

Tobia Marenghi · SPORT

Venice Watches Italy's Housing Question as the Foreign Press Turns to Spain

The Local asks whether Italy is heading for a Spanish-style housing crisis, and the lagoon city has been living that question for years.

A foreign-press survey of Italy's housing market lands in a city where residents have been priced out of their own quarters for a generation.

Tommaso Veronese

A Tuscan Cellar Emptied in Hours, and the Freight Lesson Trieste Reads

The Antinori heist moved 30,000 bottles by truck; the port city knows how quickly a sealed consignment can vanish

Foreign wires put the Antinori theft at €5m and 30,000 bottles, moved out by two vans or trucks in a single night.

Sergio Madrussan

Italy Weighs a Spanish-Style Housing Crisis as Politicians Start to Acknowledge One at Home

The Local reports that Italian politicians are watching Spain's housing crisis closely and beginning to name Italy's own.

Italian politicians are studying Spain's housing crisis and starting to acknowledge a domestic one, according to The Local Italy.

Marina Doria

Italy Weighs a Spanish-Style Housing Crisis as Tuscany Counts Its Empty Rooms

Foreign coverage turns to Italy's property squeeze, a question the hills know well

As Rome studies Spain's housing crisis, the foreign press asks whether Italy is next — a question Tuscan hill towns have been answering for years.

Costanza Bardi

As Spain's Housing Crisis Echoes, Inland Italy Asks Its Own Question

The Local reports that Italian politicians are watching Madrid's protests closely — and beginning to name a crisis at home.

Foreign coverage of Spain's housing protests has turned Italian attention to rents, empty homes and the towns that keep losing their young.

Niccolò Mariani

A Piedmont Chemicals Trial, and the Water Beneath the Fields

Two former plant directors face charges of involuntary environmental disaster, as campaigners hope the case will force a reckoning.

Foreign coverage of the 'forever chemicals' prosecution in northern Italy turns on a question inland farming regions know well: who tests the water, and who is told.

Niccolò Mariani

Rome Reads the Spanish Comparison as Italy's Housing Question Surfaces

Foreign coverage says Italian politicians are watching Spain's crisis closely, and beginning to name one at home

A foreign-press survey of Italy's housing market finds politicians studying Spain's crisis and starting to acknowledge pressures at home.

Davide Ruspoli

As Italy Debates a Housing Crisis, the Apennine Interior Asks Who Is Left to House

The Local reports Rome watching Spain's housing squeeze; in the emptied mountain comuni the problem runs the other way

Foreign coverage of an Italian housing crunch lands differently in a region where the stock outnumbers the residents.

Marco Di Sante

Molise's Empty Houses and the Spanish Warning Rome Is Reading

The Local asks whether Italy is heading for a Spanish-style housing crisis. In the emptiest region, the crisis arrived decades ago.

As Italian politicians study Spain's housing crisis, Molise already knows what it looks like when the market stops building and starts emptying.

Antonio Petrella

Italy's Housing Question, Read from a Region That Cannot Fill Its Houses

Foreign coverage asks whether Italy is heading for a Spanish-style crisis. In the Marche, the problem runs the other way.

The Local Italy reports Italian politicians are watching Spain's housing crisis and beginning to acknowledge one at home. Inland Marche, the pressure is depopulation, not prices.

Elena Marcheggiani

Puglia's Housing Squeeze and the Spanish Mirror

As foreign buyers push prices up in the south, the foreign press asks whether Italy is heading for Spain's housing crisis

International coverage of Italy's property market increasingly points south, where coastal Puglia feels the same pressures that reshaped Spain's cities.

Francesca Lazzari

A Piedmont Chemicals Trial, Read From Taranto's Steel Coast

Two former plant directors face charges of involuntary environmental disaster, and the industrial south watches the legal test

The 'forever chemicals' case in northern Italy asks who answers for industrial contamination, a question Taranto has lived with for decades.

Francesca Lazzari

A Bonus Seat Passed in Secret, and the Deep South Counts Its Weight

The Guardian reports Italy's electoral reform cleared parliament in a secret ballot; Basilicata, with 537,000 people, reads what a 42% threshold means for the smallest regions.

Italy's parliament approved an electoral overhaul granting bonus seats to winning blocs; the Guardian reports the opposition vows a court challenge.

Pietro Lasorsa

Italy's politicians watch Spain's housing crisis, and start to see their own

The Local Italy reports that Rome is reading Madrid's affordability squeeze as a warning closer to home

Italian politicians are studying Spain's housing crisis this week, and some are beginning to acknowledge a comparable problem at home.

Adriana Sole

Italy's strike announcements and the gap between warning and disruption

The Local Italy reports that participation in Italian transport strikes is often far lower than the headlines suggest

Strike notices in Italy cause widespread passenger alarm, but The Local Italy reports that actual participation is often surprisingly low.

Adriana Sole

AC Milan Linked With Bournemouth's Alex Scott in Latest Transfer Gossip

The BBC's Sunday round-up reports Milan's interest in the Bournemouth midfielder, alongside Bayern talks over a Manchester United player and Liverpool's pursuit of a Barcelona defender

AC Milan are looking at Bournemouth's Alex Scott, according to the BBC's Sunday transfer gossip round-up.

Tobia Marenghi

Clooney's Italian Restaurant in Provence, Read from Italy's Kitchen

The Guardian asks what to expect from a Hollywood star's trattoria in a Provençal village — and the answer, for Italy, is a familiar one

George Clooney, now a French citizen, plans an Italian restaurant in Provence, and the Guardian weighs it against his tequila brand and a Spielberg submarine eatery that failed.

Eleonora Vanzetti

Italy Studies Spain's Housing Crisis, and Naples Knows the Squeeze

As foreign coverage notes Rome watching Madrid, the southern city's rental market shows what a housing crunch looks like from the street

The Local Italy reports Italian politicians are eyeing Spain's housing crisis this week, with some beginning to acknowledge one at home.

Rosaria Esposito

Tornadoes Strike Marsala as the Wire Asks What Weather Now Means

Two funnels came ashore in western Sicily, injuring dozens. In the Alps, the same question arrives at a different altitude.

Foreign wires report a rare double tornado in western Sicily; Alpine communities read the same unsettled sky from higher ground.

Camille Bréan

Foreign Press Asks If Italy Is Next in Line for a Housing Shock

The Local's weekly Italy briefing reads Rome's politics against Spain's rent revolt, and points at the cities the money flows to first

A foreign-press briefing argues Italian politicians are now watching Spain's housing crisis closely — and starting to concede one at home.

Beatrice Comolli

Italy's Housing Squeeze, Read from the Alpine Valleys

As foreign coverage asks whether Italy faces a Spanish-style crisis, the question lands hard in Trentino-Alto Adige, where local incomes meet Alpine prices

The Local Italy asks whether Italy is heading for a Spanish-style housing crisis. In Trentino-Alto Adige, the question has a mountain accent.

Klara Hofer

Thirty Thousand Bottles, and What the World Sees in Them

A €5m wine heist in Tuscany became the week's most-told Italian story abroad — and that tells us something about which Italy the world prefers to read.

Editorial Board

Sicily's Waterspouts and the Politics of Prevention

Two rare tornadoes struck Marsala this week, and the world's wires reached for the word 'unprecedented' — a word that should trouble a country that lives on the Mediterranean.

Editorial Board