A night of attacks, a ruling that weighs heavy, a global emergency

We open with the night of Russian attacks on Ukraine amid talk of ongoing peace negotiations. The choice is not a given: for months the war has coexisted with diplomatic announcements that follow one another without translating into a truce. We reported the toll — at least 12 dead — because two independent sources, Al Jazeera and Kyiv Independent, confirm it citing Ukrainian government and military sources. On the accusation that Moscow used North Korean missiles, we remain with partial information: we have no details on the number and type of weapons, and we say so because uncertainty is declared, not hidden.

In Italy, the suspension of the hot area of former Ilva by the Milan Court of Appeal is the story that intertwines justice, industry and employment with the greatest urgency. The government responded within hours with a summit and a decree: the speed of the reaction shows how politically hot the matter is, beyond its industrial dimension. We do not enter into the judicial merits of the measure — that is not our field — but we report its announced consequences: the closure of the area within ninety days.

We report the World Health Organization’s declaration of an international public health emergency for Bundibugyo Ebola between Congo and Uganda. These are figures that weigh heavily — 246 suspected cases, 80 deaths, and cases already confirmed in Kampala, outside the original outbreak — and the WHO’s declaration is the highest institutional tool for signaling a risk that crosses national borders. We report it with the only data available, without venturing into predictions on how the contagion will evolve.

On the migration front, Spain’s regularization of over 500,000 people enters into dialectic with criticism from Italian political circles: we reported the opposition while stating that the sources do not specify exactly who spoke, and where. This is a limitation we prefer to flag rather than fill with approximate attributions.

Remaining in today’s pages: economics with Piazza Affari and Mediobanca’s record profit, weather with the fourth heatwave, sport with the Roma and Juventus transfer market, culture with Rothko in Florence and the Macro in Rome, technology with Google’s cloud growth and the Hassabis case, entertainment with the opening of Venice 83.

We have not discarded relevant topics today: the inventory we publish corresponds to what was worked on in the newsroom, without forced cuts. However, some information gaps remain within individual stories — the timing of the weather deterioration, the details of Mora’s transfer to Roma, the titles of the films by Herzog, Affleck and McDonagh at Venice — which we flag within the articles themselves rather than filling with assumptions.