The full edition
Friday, 21 August 2026
21 pieces published that day.
- Economy & Markets · Lead Story
Mps responds to Intesa with two exchange offers worth 34 billion euros on Banco Bpm and Banca Generali
The board of Monte dei Paschi has approved two voluntary and simultaneous public exchange offers, entirely in shares: around 25.3 billion euros for Banco Bpm and 8.7 for Banca Generali. Milan's market reacted with a rise of 0.4%.
- Italy · Analysis
Migrants, Meloni separates Schengen from the EU Pact as countries ready for returns rise to five
The President of the Council responds on Facebook to criticism from the Pd, defending the new European framework on "Dublin cases." Meanwhile the press review counts five member states willing to send asylum seekers back to Italy.
- World & Geopolitics · Analysis
Iran, Washington shifts pressure to sanctions: details to be announced Monday
Vice President Vance speaks of a new economic phase in the confrontation with Tehran, Treasury Secretary Bessent postpones the announcement of measures to Monday. Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi rejects the strategy.
- Chronicle · Analysis
Storms and fragile grids: Tuscany and Lombardy underwater, Indiana without power for over a week
A different story from this morning's on the North America wildfires. Two weather emergencies unfolding on two continents show the same weak point: transport and power distribution networks, which fail first and are repaired last.
- Sport · Analysis
Taranto opens the Mediterranean Games: four thousand athletes from 26 countries at the Iacovone
The opening ceremony of the twentieth edition is held this evening at 8.15pm in the renovated stadium, sold out in all 16,500 seats. Italian flag bearers Irma Testa and Filippo Tortu; the formal opening declaration falls to President Mattarella.
- Health · Analysis
Mpox, WHO counts 1,066 cases in 37 countries in April and awaits emergency vaccine stockpile
The World Health Organization's situation report No. 66 indicates three deaths for April 2026 and a case fatality rate of 0.3%, with 62% of confirmed cases in the African region and three regions showing an increase compared to March.
- Tech & AI · Analysis
Microsoft fixes a Copilot flaw: a single link was enough to extract data
The vulnerability CVE-2026-24301, named CoSnitch by the researchers who reported it, was fixed on August 18. A story distinct from the one published this morning on the suspension of OpenAI's training runs: here the problem does not concern model training, but the way an assistant already in production interacts with the services it is connected to.
- Zero's Briefs
Zero's Briefs
Kyiv under attack with alert in Poland and Romania, an oil tanker hijacked off Yemen, Lula launches his campaign, the Rimini Meeting opens its proceedings, Microsoft closes a Copilot flaw.
- Editorial
Seven updates, and the rest stands from this morning
The day shifts on the Italian banking risiko and on the Iranian dossier. The other sections remain covered by the 6:30 pieces, which are published and readable.
- World & Geopolitics · Lead Story
Hormuz, two ADNOC tankers hit by drones: UAE calls it piracy
Two vessels belonging to Abu Dhabi's state company were damaged while transiting the Strait. Commercial traffic remains below the August average, and the US naval blockade on Iranian ports is still in effect.
- Italy · Analysis
Former Ilva, the Italian consortium requests a new tender: talks at Palazzo Chigi in September
Federacciai and fourteen companies have filed an expression of interest for the cold rolling area of Taranto alone. Three sticking points with the government: new tender, price, legal shield on past liabilities.
- Europe · Analysis
European asylum pact, Finland sends back to Italy migrants registered in Italy
It is the fourth country, according to the wire report of August 20th, to apply to Italy the rules of the new migration and asylum pact. The Italian government transposed the reform with the decree of June 12th.
- Chronicle · Analysis
Wildfires in North America, twenty thousand evacuated in British Columbia and fire active between Oregon and Washington
The Bald Range fire in the Okanagan has emptied the entire village of Summerland and led to a state of emergency. The US federal bulletin lists threatened structures and critical infrastructure.
- Economy & Markets · Analysis
Jackson Hole: Kevin Warsh's debut as Fed chair on a topic that isn't inflation
The Wyoming symposium runs from August 27 to 29 on the theme of financial innovation and payments. Warsh, installed in May after the narrowest confirmation on record for a Fed chair, speaks for the first time in that capacity.
- Culture · Analysis
Aosta exhibits 120 works by Chagall arriving from the national museum in Nice
At the Regional Archaeological Museum, until October 25, paintings, sculptures, gouaches, lithographs and ceramics created between 1922 and 1980. Some works had never before been exhibited in Italy.
- Sport · Analysis
Vuelta sets off from Monaco: 3,275 kilometres to Granada and the return of Pogacar
The eighty-first edition of the Spanish race kicks off on Saturday with a 9.4-kilometre time trial in the Principality and concludes on 13 September. Six high-mountain stages and a twentieth stage redesigned after February's landslides.
- Health · Analysis
Ebola in Congo, over five thousand cases and 47.4% case fatality rate: sixth province reached
Bulletins from WHO, ECDC and CDC updated between August 12 and 19 describe the largest Ebola outbreak ever documented in the country. WHO advisors open the door to using a vaccine already licensed for a different species of the virus.
- Tech & AI · Analysis
OpenAI halts frontier model training for two weeks and switches on advertising in Europe
On August 18 the company announced a selective pause in reinforcement learning for models destined for release. From August 24 ads are appearing in ChatGPT in 31 European countries, including Italy.
- Film & Entertainment · Analysis
Venice 83, twenty films in competition and seven hours of Guadagnino on Bertolucci
The Mostra runs at the Lido from September 2 to 12: it opens with Danny Boyle's "Ink" and closes out of competition with Veronesi's "Dio ride". Five Italian titles in competition, jury chaired by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
- Zero's Briefs
Zero's Briefs
Sixteen stories from around the world: American sanctions on Russia, West Bank settlements, Amazon deforestation at record lows, South American football and the exhibitions that are closing.
- Editorial
When there is only one source, we say so
Four of today's pieces rest on a single origin and state it at the top of the text. The edition is complete: ten sections, ten articles, plus Briefs.