Rome Sends 500 Troops to Milan and Moves Against Minors

Foreign wires read the cabinet's security package as a hardening line, with parents made to answer for damage and pre-emptive detention weighed for under-18s

Italy approved 500 additional soldiers for Milan and a package of tougher security measures after weekend clashes that left more than 100 police officers injured, according to France 24 and the BBC.

Adriana Sole · NATIONAL

Fuel protests in the South reach the pasta mills

France 24 reports that the truckers' standoff has disrupted pasta production and food deliveries in southern Italy, as Rome weighs security laws written in Milan

The same cabinet that approved 500 troops for Milan also faced a southern fuel protest that France 24 says has touched pasta production and food deliveries.

Saverio Gallo · ECONOMY

Pope Leo XIV Returns to the Vatican Balcony, Four Days After Surgery

The pontiff recited the Angelus from the Apostolic Palace less than a week after surgeons removed part of his right lung.

Pope Leo XIV has resumed public duties at the Vatican, appearing on the Apostolic Palace balcony for the Angelus days after cancer surgery, according to international broadcasters.

Davide Ruspoli · INTERNATIONAL

The Sardinian Village the Guardian Is Watching for Women's Longevity

Bolotana, in the central mountains, is in line to become the world's sixth 'blue zone' for its high number of female centenarians.

A Guardian feature finds the secret to long life among the sisters and centenarians of Bolotana, a mountain village in central Sardinia now in line for blue-zone status.

Gavino Sanna · REGIONAL

Rome's Milan Crackdown Raises a Question in the Autonomies

The foreign wires report 500 troops, pre-emptive detention of minors and parental liability. Trentino-Alto Adige has spent decades arguing over who writes such rules.

As the international press reports a security decree drafted after Milan's riots, the special-autonomy regions are watching how far Rome's competence now reaches.

Klara Hofer

Italy Halves Its Airspace as a Data Fault Slows the Skies Over Trieste

The national flight authority cut traffic by half over a transmission-network problem and ruled out sabotage; the eastern border's airports absorbed the change.

Italy's air navigation authority halved the volume of flights in Italian airspace after a data transmission failure, ruling out malicious activity and insisting the skies stayed safe.

Sergio Madrussan

Italy Agrees to Return a Texas Man, on Condition He Faces a Lesser Charge

The case turns on Italy's longstanding refusal to surrender a suspect to a jurisdiction that might seek the death penalty.

Italy has agreed to send a Texas man accused of killing his pregnant wife back to the United States, provided he is not tried for capital murder.

Sergio Madrussan

Italy Halves Its Air Traffic as the Data Network Fails

ENAV cut flights across Italian airspace citing transmission problems and ruled out foul play; the ports and the coast watch a system with no spare capacity.

Italian authorities halved the volume of flights in their airspace over a data transmission fault, with the ENAV authority ruling out malicious activity and saying flights remained safe.

Marina Doria

Fuel protests reach the food chain as pasta production and deliveries stall

France 24 reports that the southern truckers' and farmers' stoppage has touched pasta output and food deliveries, a warning for Italy's export economy.

France 24 reports that Italy's fuel-price protests have disrupted pasta production and food deliveries in the south, while the cabinet approved troops for Milan and a new security package.

Giulia Benati

Italy Halves Its Air Traffic as a Data Network Fails, and Tuscany Counts the Cost

Deutsche Welle reports ENAV cut flights by half over a transmission fault, ruling out sabotage; the burden falls on a region that lives off arrivals.

A data transmission failure forced Italy's air navigation authority to halve flights in its airspace, DW reports, and for a region built on tourism the arithmetic is unwelcome.

Costanza Bardi

Pope Leo returns to the Angelus, and Assisi weighs a quieter autumn

Four days after lung surgery the pontiff recited the Angelus from the Apostolic Palace; the pilgrimage economy of the Umbrian hills reads the news with relief and caution

The Pope's first public event since a cancerous growth was removed from his lung was the traditional Angelus, and the shrines at Assisi have reason to follow his recovery closely.

Niccolò Mariani

The sagra season runs past the harvest, and the interior keeps its tables

The Local's November guide to Italy's food festivals points to a calendar that outlasts the grape and the olive

Italy's food festivals continue through November, according to a foreign guide to the country's sagre, and for the inland towns that is the point.

Niccolò Mariani

Italy Agrees to Return a Texas Man to Face Charges, on One Condition

The extradition carries a caveat: the United States must not seek the death penalty, according to CBS News.

Italy has agreed to send a Texas man accused of killing his pregnant wife back to the United States, provided he faces a lesser charge than capital murder, CBS News reported.

Davide Ruspoli

Southern Fuel Protests Reach the Apennine Interior

The wire reports truckers and farmers halting freight in the south; the mountain interior knows the same distance, the same pumps

France 24 and the New York Times report fuel-price protests stopping commercial traffic in southern Italy, a grievance that reads differently in the depopulated Apennines.

Marco Di Sante

Molise Watches the Southern Fuel Protests From a Quiet Distance

Foreign wires report truckers and farmers halting freight in the south and pasta production hit; the interior reads it as a familiar arithmetic

The wires say fuel-price protests have disrupted food deliveries and pasta output in southern Italy, a story the emptiest region knows by its own distances.

Antonio Petrella

Rome Sends 500 Troops to Milan as Fuel Protests Reach the South's Pasta

The cabinet approved tougher security measures and easier detention of minors, while a truckers' revolt over fuel prices is felt in southern food production

Italy's government is deploying 500 soldiers to Milan and tightening security law after weekend riots, as France 24 reports the fuel-price protests now touch pasta production and food deliveries in the south.

Rosaria Esposito

Fuel protests in the South slow pasta production and food deliveries

As Rome sends 500 troops to Milan, France 24 reports that the southern fuel strike is biting into food supply chains

France 24 reports that fuel price protests in southern Italy have disrupted pasta production and food deliveries, even as the government focuses on security in Milan.

Francesca Lazzari

Fuel protests reach southern pasta, and the freight that carries it

France 24 reports that the truckers' standstill is now touching food production in the South, the same roads Basilicata's farms depend on

As Rome sends 500 troops to Milan, the foreign wires note a quieter southern story: fuel-price protests disrupting pasta production and food deliveries in the South.

Pietro Lasorsa

Rome Sends 500 Troops to Milan as Southern Freight Stops

The cabinet approves detention of minors and a new protest crime, while fuel-price blockades hit pasta and food deliveries in the south

Italy's government deployed 500 soldiers to Milan and toughened security law on Tuesday, as a parallel protest by southern truckers and farmers began to reach the food supply.

Concetta Vassallo

Italy Agrees to Return a Texas Suspect, on One Condition

CBS reports Rome will send a man accused of killing his pregnant wife to face charges in the United States, provided capital murder is taken off the table

A Texas man accused of killing his pregnant wife two years ago and fleeing to Italy will be sent back to face charges on condition he does not face capital murder, CBS News reported.

Adriana Sole

Rome Sends 500 Troops to Milan as a Fuel Protest Bites Into Food

France 24 and others report a cabinet package on detention of minors — and a southern haulage stoppage that has touched pasta production and deliveries

The foreign wires report 500 soldiers for Milan, harsher penalties for violent protesters and parental liability for minors, alongside a southern fuel protest now reaching food supply.

Elena Marcheggiani

Pope Leo Returns to the Vatican and to Work After Lung Surgery

The pontiff recited the Angelus four days after surgeons removed part of his right lung; the wires report a rapid, staged return

Pope Leo XIV was discharged on Saturday and returned to work at the Vatican on Monday, less than a week after surgery to remove a cancerous growth from his lung.

Lorenzo Ferraris

Pope Leo Returns to Work Days After Lung Cancer Surgery

The Vatican says the pontiff recited the Angelus from the Apostolic Palace balcony, less than a week after part of his right lung was removed.

Pope Leo XIV has returned to public duties after surgery to remove a cancerous growth from his lung, appearing at the Apostolic Palace to lead the Angelus.

Camille Bréan

Milan Counts the Cost as Rome Sends 500 Troops to Its Streets

The cabinet approved a security package and a military deployment after weekend looting; the city's commercial core is trading on damage control.

Italy's government approved 500 troops for Milan and a tougher security package after riots left more than 100 police injured and shops looted, per France 24 and the Guardian.

Beatrice Comolli

The Stories the World Tells About Italy, and the Ones It Misses

In a single week the foreign press files on riots, a Pope's recovery, a data failure in the skies and centenarians in Sardinia. What the mix reveals.

Editorial Board

When the State Answers a Cost-of-Living Protest With Soldiers

The world wires report 500 troops bound for Milan and easier detention of minors. We ask what a security answer to a social question actually secures.

Editorial Board