Pope Leo Resumes Duties as Lombardy Watches the Medical Supply Chain

The Vatican says the pontiff is working again after lung surgery; Milan's life-sciences corridor reads the diagnosis as a test of its export base

Pope Leo XIV has resumed some papal duties after a cancerous right-lung tumour was removed in Rome, the Vatican says, as Lombardy's pharmaceutical and medical-device exporters watch the follow-up testing.

Beatrice Comolli · NATIONAL

Europe's Election Season Opens, and Rome Weighs a Trumpian Tilt

A Guardian columnist warns that simultaneous far-right gains in four large European states could reorient the continent — with Italy already governed from that camp.

As Europe enters a heavy election season, a Guardian commentary argues that far-right wins in four big countries at once would produce a dramatic Trumpian tilt.

Davide Ruspoli · INTERNATIONAL

Switching Energy Supplier in Italy Is About to Get Quicker

A consumer story from the international press lands differently in a region that exports hydroelectric power and imports its own

The Local reports that switching energy provider in Italy is about to get faster, though not always free — a change with particular weight in the hydro-rich Alps.

Camille Bréan · ECONOMY

Man Pulled From Sardinia Cave After 26 Hours Trapped by Rockslide

Guardian reports 31-year-old rescued from Gorroppeddu cave, roughly 10 metres below ground in the Urzulei range

A 31-year-old man has been rescued alive from a Sardinian cave after being trapped about 10 metres below ground for 26 hours following a rockslide.

Marina Doria · REGIONAL

Pope Leo Begins Respiratory Physiotherapy as Vatican Confirms Lung Cancer

The 71-year-old pontiff had the lower lobe of his right lung removed in Rome; the Vatican says he has resumed some duties

Pope Leo XIV is recovering 'as expected' and has begun respiratory physiotherapy after surgery confirmed lung cancer, the Vatican says, as the Guardian reports the operation was 'successful, on schedule and as planned'.

Klara Hofer

Pope Leo Has Lung Cancer, and the Marche Reads the Diagnosis Plainly

The Vatican says the 71-year-old pontiff is recovering after the lower lobe of his right lung was removed; in Italy's small-firm districts the news lands with a particular weight.

The Vatican said Pope Leo has lung cancer after surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung, and the pontiff has begun respiratory physiotherapy.

Elena Marcheggiani

Pope Leo Resumes Some Duties as the Vatican Runs Without Him

The 71-year-old pontiff has begun respiratory physiotherapy after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung; the Curia continues on autopilot.

The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Leo XIV has resumed some papal work, days after a lung cancer diagnosis and the removal of part of his right lung.

Davide Ruspoli

Pope Leo Resumes Some Duties as the Wires Take Stock of His Cancer

The Vatican says the 71-year-old is working again after right-lung surgery, while foreign correspondents read the diagnosis against the machinery of Rome

The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Leo has resumed some papal duties, days after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung and confirmed lung cancer.

Sergio Madrussan

Pope Leo Has Lung Cancer, and the Mountain Interior Knows the Disease

The Vatican says the 71-year-old pontiff had the lower lobe of his right lung removed in Rome; the Apennine highlands read the diagnosis through their own long history of lung illness

The Vatican said Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer and had part of his right lung removed; in Italy's mountain interior, the diagnosis lands on familiar ground.

Marco Di Sante

A Cave, a Rockslide and 26 Hours: Sardinia's Rescue Reaches the Interior

The Guardian reports a 31-year-old man was pulled alive from the Gorroppeddu cave after being trapped roughly 10 metres underground.

A complex rescue in the Urzulei mountains ended with a man alive after 26 hours, and it reads differently in a country whose interior is emptying.

Antonio Petrella

Shipping a Life to Italy: What Foreign Readers Say They Got Wrong

The Local Italy collects readers' accounts of moving household goods to Italy — and the costs they wish they had known about first.

Foreign residents describe shipping their belongings to Italy and what they would do differently, in a country where the paperwork is the expensive part.

Antonio Petrella

Pope Leo Resumes Some Duties as Puglia's Harvest Waits on a Blessing

After surgery for lung cancer, the pontiff is working again from hospital; the Vatican's autopilot keeps the calendar moving

The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV has resumed some papal duties after a cancerous tumour was removed from his right lung, with further tests to follow.

Francesca Lazzari

A Lung Cancer Diagnosis in Rome, Read from the Calabrian Interior

The Vatican says Pope Leo, 71, is recovering after surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung; the South reads the news against its own distances from care

Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer, the Vatican said, after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung in what they called a successful operation.

Saverio Gallo

Man Rescued From Urzulei Cave After 26 Hours Trapped by Rockslide

The Guardian reports a 31-year-old was pulled alive from the Gorroppeddu cave, roughly ten metres below ground, in Sardinia's Supramonte

A cave rescue in the Urzulei mountains has put Sardinia's interior and its speleological community in the international press.

Gavino Sanna

Kartal Beats Paolini in Straight Sets to Reach Wuhan Quarter-Finals

Britain's Sonay Kartal removes the former Wimbledon finalist from the Wuhan Open, the latest Italian defeat on the hard-court swing

Sonay Kartal beat former Wimbledon finalist Jasmine Paolini in straight sets in Wuhan, continuing an impressive comeback on the WTA tour.

Tobia Marenghi

Verdi's Macbeth Returns to Cinema Screens, and Italy Watches Its Own Opera

The New York Times lists Verdi's Shakespeare adaptation among October's streaming theater, a reminder of how the world reads Italian opera.

Verdi's 'Macbeth' comes to movie screens around the world this October, as the New York Times rounds up the month's theater to stream.

Eleonora Vanzetti

A Man Pulled From a Sardinian Cave After 26 Hours, and What Rescue Means on an Island of Holes

The Guardian reports a 31-year-old freed from the Gorroppeddu cave in the Urzulei range, trapped ten metres down by a rockslide

A cave rescue in Sardinia's Supramonte has ended well; the same geology that draws cavers and walkers is what makes the island's interior so unforgiving.

Tommaso Veronese

Europe's Election Season, Read From a Border That Watches Both Directions

A Guardian columnist warns that simultaneous far-right gains in four large countries could produce a 'Trumpian tilt' — a prospect with particular weight in the north-east

Writing in the Guardian, Nathalie Tocci argues that a far-right sweep across four big European countries at once would tilt the continent sharply toward Washington.

Sergio Madrussan

A Pope Falls Ill, and the Machinery of Rome Keeps Turning

The world's coverage of Pope Leo's lung cancer has dwelt less on the man than on the institution that carries on without him.

Editorial Board

Europe Votes, and Italy Is Watched From the Doorway

A Guardian columnist warns that a nationalist sweep across four large European states would tilt the continent — and Italy sits at the centre of that forecast.

Editorial Board