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Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery as Rome Announcement Reaches Milan
The pontiff says a nodular lesion was found at an early stage; the Vatican's disclosure follows the pattern the financial press watches
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, found at an early stage during routine checks, according to the Guardian and Le Monde.
Beatrice Comolli · INTERNATIONAL
EU Budget Cut by €140bn as Irish Presidency Hunts a Christmas Deal
The proposed trim to the bloc's next multi-year budget lands as Trentino-Alto Adige counts on cohesion funds for its Alpine programmes
Ireland, holding the EU's rotating presidency, proposed slashing the bloc's next budget by €140bn on Saturday in a bid to bridge divisions before year-end.
Klara Hofer · ECONOMY
Antonelli One Win From F1 Title as Ferrari's Singapore Gamble Backfires
The Italian leads the championship into Austin after Verstappen's lights-to-flag win, while Hamilton apologises for a strategy call that cost Ferrari a double podium
Kimi Antonelli can win his first Formula One world championship at the next race in Texas after finishing third in Singapore, as Ferrari's strategy unravelled behind him.
Tobia Marenghi · SPORT
A New York Road Trip Goes Looking for Piero, and Finds Tuscany's Smaller Towns
The Times sends a writer past Florence in search of the early Renaissance master, and the itinerary says as much about the region as the paintings do.
A New York Times travel writer tours Tuscany for Piero della Francesca's most resplendent works, in towns beyond Florence.
Costanza Bardi · CULTURE
Regional dispatches
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery as Vatican Confirms Early-Stage Nodule
The 71-year-old pontiff says the lesion was caught early and circumscribed; procedure expected within days
Pope Leo XIV has announced he will undergo surgery to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, detected during recent medical checks.
Lorenzo Ferraris
EU Presidency Proposes €140bn Cut to Next Budget in Push for Year-End Deal
Ireland's compromise offer aims to bridge divisions before Christmas; Italian industry watches cohesion and research lines
Ireland, holding the EU's rotating presidency, has proposed cutting the bloc's next budget by €140 billion to reach a deal by year-end.
Lorenzo Ferraris
Pope Leo's Lung Surgery, Read from the Alps Where Air Is the Argument
A pontiff announces an operation in Rome; a mountain region that sells clean air watches the news of a chest
Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, the Vatican and the foreign press reported, and a valley built on the promise of pure air has reason to read it closely.
Camille Bréan
A €140bn Cut in the EU Budget, and What Small Regions Hear in It
Ireland proposes trimming the bloc's next budget to reach a December deal; cohesion money is where the argument lands
Ireland, holding the EU's rotating presidency, proposed cutting the bloc's next budget by €140bn in pursuit of a deal by year's end, according to The Local Italy.
Camille Bréan
EU Budget Cutback Talks Put Lombardy's Export Ledger on Watch
Ireland's presidency floats a €140bn trim to the bloc's next budget as Milan's manufacturers count what Brussels pays for
A proposed €140 billion cut to the EU's next budget, floated by the Irish presidency, lands on a region whose exporters and researchers draw directly on Brussels money.
Beatrice Comolli
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery as Alpine Dioceses Watch Rome
The 71-year-old pontiff says a nodular lesion was found early and is 'circumscribed'; the announcement reaches South Tyrol's German-speaking parishes
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, the Vatican said, in the first known health intervention of his papacy.
Klara Hofer
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery as the World Wire Watches Rome
The 71-year-old pontiff says a nodular lesion was found early and circumscribed; the Veneto's Catholic heartland takes the news quietly
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, the Vatican has said, in the first known health test of his papacy.
Tommaso Veronese
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery as the Wire Reads Rome
The Vatican says the nodule was found early and circumscribed; from Trieste, a border diocese watches a pontiff's health
Pope Leo XIV has said he will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, detected at an early stage during recent medical checks.
Sergio Madrussan
EU Presidency Proposes €140bn Cut to Next Budget in Hunt for a Christmas Deal
Ireland's rotating presidency floats the reduction to bridge divisions; for Trieste, the question is what survives of cohesion and transport funding
Ireland, holding the EU's rotating presidency, has suggested cutting the bloc's next proposed budget by €140 billion in a bid to reach a deal by year's end.
Sergio Madrussan
Brussels Trims Its Budget, and Genoa Counts the Cranes
Ireland's presidency proposes cutting €140bn from the EU's next budget as Rome's logistics priorities hang in the balance
A proposed €140bn cut to the EU's next budget lands hardest on the member states that build their growth on infrastructure, and Liguria's port economy is watching.
Marina Doria
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery as Rome Holds Its Breath
The 71-year-old pontiff says a nodular lesion was found early and will be removed in the coming days
The Vatican's announcement of surgery on Pope Leo XIV puts the world's attention back on Rome, and on the institutions that sit inside it.
Marina Doria
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery as Vatican Confirms Early-Stage Nodule
The 71-year-old pontiff says the lesion was caught early and circumscribed; procedure expected within days in Rome
Pope Leo XIV has announced he will have surgery to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, detected during recent medical checks.
Giulia Benati
EU Presidency Proposes €140bn Cut to Bloc's Next Budget in Push for Year-End Deal
Ireland, holding the rotating presidency, floats the reduction to bridge divisions; Italy's farm and cohesion receipts sit in the balance
Ireland has proposed slashing the EU's next budget by €140 billion in a bid to reach a deal by Christmas, according to The Local Italy.
Giulia Benati
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery, and Italy Reads Its Own Anxiety
The 71-year-old pontiff says a nodular lesion was found early and circumscribed; the world wire reports it plainly, and a country of the unwell watches closely
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, the Vatican says, with the pontiff describing the finding as early and circumscribed.
Pietro Lasorsa
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery, Read from the Apennine Interior
The pontiff says the nodule was caught early and circumscribed; L'Aquila knows what early detection means
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, the Vatican and the pontiff himself have said, and the news travels differently in a region that lives with the memory of a health system tested by disaster.
Marco Di Sante
EU Presidency Proposes €140bn Cut to Next Budget in Push for December Deal
Ireland's compromise offer lands as Italy's poorer regions wait on cohesion money the wire does not yet itemise
Ireland, holding the EU's rotating presidency, has proposed cutting the bloc's next budget by €140 billion in an effort to bridge divisions and reach a deal by the end of the year.
Marco Di Sante
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery, Vatican Says
The 71-year-old pontiff says a nodular lesion was found at an early stage; the procedure is expected within days.
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, the Vatican says.
Concetta Vassallo
Ireland Proposes €140bn Cut to EU Budget in Push for Year-End Deal
The rotating presidency's compromise lands as Italy, a major net beneficiary, weighs what a smaller envelope means for cohesion funds
Ireland, holding the EU's rotating presidency, has proposed cutting the bloc's next budget by €140 billion in an attempt to bridge divisions and reach a deal by the end of the year.
Adriana Sole
A Lisbon Show Pairs a Portuguese Artist With Valentino, and Italy Reads the Export
The Guardian reports Joana Vasconcelos resists art defined by pain, even as a Roman house's size-zero dresses hang beside her work.
A new Lisbon exhibition places Joana Vasconcelos's monumental sculpture alongside Valentino's size-zero catwalk dresses, raising a question the foreign press puts to Italian fashion directly.
Eleonora Vanzetti
A New York Times Road Trip Goes Looking for Piero della Francesca Beyond Florence
The paper sends a writer through Tuscan towns that hold the early Renaissance painter's work, and the itinerary itself is the story.
The New York Times has published a travel account of hunting Piero della Francesca's frescoes in Tuscan towns outside Florence, a route the foreign press rarely maps.
Eleonora Vanzetti
Thirty Thousand Bottles Gone, and the World Press Counts What Tuscany Exports
The Antinori theft near Cortona is now the most-reported Tuscan story of the week abroad, and the coverage keeps returning to the same word: export.
International outlets agree on the scale of the Antinori wine theft and on what it says about how much of Italy's standing travels in a bottle.
Costanza Bardi
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery, and Assisi Reads the News Closely
The pontiff, 71, says a nodular lesion was found early and circumscribed; the Franciscan town watches a convalescence it knows how to host
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodule on his lung, the Vatican has said, a development Assisi receives with particular attention.
Niccolò Mariani
A New York Times Road Trip Chases Piero della Francesca Beyond Florence
The paper sends a writer through the towns of the early Renaissance, a route that runs through the same interior Umbria knows
The New York Times has published a travel essay following Piero della Francesca's frescoes through towns beyond Florence, the kind of itinerary that bypasses the cities and stops in the small places.
Niccolò Mariani
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery, and a Region Reads the Bulletin Plainly
The Vatican says a nodular lesion was found early and is circumscribed; foreign wires carry the announcement without embellishment
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, found at an early stage during routine medical checks.
Elena Marcheggiani
EU Budget Cut Back in Search of a Christmas Deal, and the Adriatic Watches
Ireland's presidency proposes trimming 140 billion euros from the next budget to bridge divisions before year-end
Ireland, holding the EU's rotating presidency, has proposed cutting 140 billion euros from the bloc's next budget in a bid to reach a deal by Christmas.
Elena Marcheggiani
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery as Rome Reads the Medical Bulletin
The 71-year-old pontiff says a nodular lesion was found at an early stage; the procedure is expected within days
Pope Leo XIV has announced he will have surgery to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, a disclosure that puts the Vatican's machinery of succession and continuity back in the world's headlines.
Davide Ruspoli
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery, and a Small Diocese Watches Rome
The Vatican says the nodule was caught early; in Molise, where parishes already pray for the Pope by name, the wire brings the news home
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, detected early, the Vatican and the foreign press report.
Antonio Petrella
EU Presidency Proposes €140bn Cut to Next Budget, and the South Counts
Ireland's compromise aims for a Christmas deal; regions that live on cohesion money are watching the arithmetic
Ireland, holding the EU's rotating presidency, has proposed cutting the bloc's next budget by €140 billion in a bid to close divisions before year's end.
Antonio Petrella
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery as Naples Prepares Its Prayers
The 71-year-old pontiff says the nodule was caught early; in Campania, a region that lives close to the Vatican, the announcement lands quietly but deeply
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion found in his lung, the Vatican has said.
Rosaria Esposito
EU Presidency Proposes €140bn Cut to Bloc's Budget in Hunt for December Deal
Ireland's compromise offer lands as Rome weighs what a smaller purse means for the South's cohesion funds
Ireland, holding the EU's rotating presidency, has proposed slashing the bloc's next budget by €140 billion to bridge divisions before year's end.
Rosaria Esposito
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery as Vatican Confirms Early-Stage Nodule
The 71-year-old pontiff says the lesion was caught early and circumscribed; procedure expected within days
Pope Leo XIV has said he will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, detected during routine medical checks.
Francesca Lazzari
EU Presidency Proposes €140bn Cut to Bloc's Budget as Rome Weighs the Bill
Ireland floats a smaller long-term budget to bridge divisions and reach a deal by year's end
Ireland, holding the EU's rotating presidency, has proposed cutting the bloc's next long-term budget by €140 billion in a bid to close divisions before Christmas.
Davide Ruspoli
A €140bn Cut to the EU Budget, and the Cohesion Money the Interior Waits On
Ireland's presidency proposes slashing the bloc's next budget to force a Christmas deal; the regions that live on the transfers are the ones with least room to absorb the cut
Ireland, holding the EU's rotating presidency, has proposed cutting the bloc's next budget by €140 billion to bridge divisions and reach a deal by year's end, according to The Local Italy.
Pietro Lasorsa
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery, and the South Reads the Vatican Bulletin
The 71-year-old pontiff says a nodular lesion was found early and is 'circumscribed'; foreign wires carry the announcement from Rome
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, the Vatican has said, in an announcement carried by the Guardian, Le Monde and CBS News.
Saverio Gallo
EU Presidency Proposes €140bn Cut to Budget in Push for Year-End Deal
Ireland, holding the rotating presidency, floated the reduction on Saturday as divisions deepen over the bloc's next spending plan.
Ireland has proposed cutting the EU's next budget by €140 billion in a bid to reach agreement by Christmas, a move with direct stakes for Sicily's cohesion funding.
Concetta Vassallo
Pope Leo XIV to Undergo Lung Surgery, and Sardinia's Parishes Take Note
The 71-year-old pontiff says a nodular lesion was found at an early stage; the island's churchgoers follow the news from Rome
Pope Leo XIV has announced surgery to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, a rare health disclosure that reaches even Sardinia's most depopulated parishes.
Gavino Sanna
Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery as Vatican Enters an Uncertain Week
The 71-year-old pontiff says the nodule was found early and is circumscribed; the Holy See's diplomacy now waits on a medical bulletin
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung, the Vatican said, an announcement that briefly pauses the Holy See's crowded international calendar.
Adriana Sole
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