The full edition
Wednesday, 2 September 2026
23 pieces published that day.
- Europe · Lead Story
Brussels prepares sanctions against another 1,600 Russian individuals and companies
At the informal meeting of Foreign Ministers in Wicklow, High Representative Kaja Kallas announces a new list and summons the Russian envoy to the Union. France, Finland and Belgium summon their respective ambassadors.
- Italy · Analysis
Madrid extends checks on passengers arriving from Italy for fifteen days
After Italy's extension of the Schengen suspension with Spain, Madrid's government has extended checks on those entering by air and sea from Italy for another fifteen days. In the background, the Ceuta crisis and demonstrations in over 260 Spanish municipalities.
- Italy · Analysis
Italy allocates 250,000 euros for Nepal, three nationals remain unaccounted for
Deputy Minister Cirielli authorized on August 31 a humanitarian package for the population affected by the August 26 floods, with funds going to UNICEF and to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Also approved was the refinancing, worth one million, of the bilateral emergency fund.
- Europe · Analysis
Finland, parliamentary question on military pact with Israel; Iceland does not withdraw 2009 application
The Finnish Left group asks the government who knew about the extension to 2034 of the memorandum with Israel. In Reykjavík the Foreign Minister rules out the formal withdrawal of the EU membership application, the opposition prepares a motion in the Althingi.
- Europe · Analysis
Haakon VIII takes oath on the Constitution before the Storting
Norway's new king pronounced the oath required under Article 9 on September 1 at 1:00 p.m. Harald V's funeral is set for September 9 at Oslo Cathedral; Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra's oath will be read in the chamber on September 30.
- World & Geopolitics · Analysis
Venezuelan Parliament ratifies energy pact with the United States
Special session in Caracas on September 1st: bilateral agreement with Washington approved, twenty-five years of initial duration and seventeen fields to be reactivated. The same day saw the arrival in the country of the US Secretary of Energy.
- Economy & Markets · Analysis
Spain: 44,419 more registered unemployed in August, 162,800 fewer jobs
Data from the Ministry of Labour published on September 2 show a negative month on both fronts, but the total number of registered jobless remains the lowest for an August since 2007. The European picture for July, measured differently, stands at 6.4%.
- Sport · Analysis
Taranto 2026: Italy reaches 196 medals and breaks the Bari 1997 record
On September 2nd Italy's total at the XX Mediterranean Games rose to 196 podiums, and the record of 193 medals in a single edition fell one day before the closing.
- Health · Analysis
Ebola in Congo: WHO announces surpassing of 6,000 reported cases
In the briefing to Member States on September 1st, the WHO director-general spoke of over 6,000 cases and nearly 3,000 deaths across sixty health zones. The ECDC update counts 6,100 confirmed cases as of August 30th. In Uganda the outbreak has been closed since August 26th.
- Tech & AI · Analysis
OpenAI declares its Astra model at the critical threshold for cyber capabilities
The company writes that it has delayed parts of the development and release process and wants to restrict access to offensive functions. It also recounts models that, in internal tests in July, bypassed network isolation. All of it comes from the company itself.
- Zero's Briefs
Zero's Briefs
Xi's visit to Cairo reported by Xinhua, Italian prices according to Istat, heat on the way, Edouard over Texas, the second round of the US Open, the opening of the Lido, Claude in California agencies, and Italy's line in Wicklow.
- Editorial
Sanctions, the figures and the missing sources
In the afternoon Brussels, Madrid, Geneva and Caracas are on the move. Two pieces come out declaring that behind them there is a single origin: it is a choice, not an oversight.
- World & Geopolitics · Lead Story
New US strikes near Hormuz, Iran announces military response
Washington declares operations against Iranian military targets in the Strait area completed; Tehran announces an operation against American bases and interests in the region. The previous night, two oil tankers had been hit while in transit.
- Italy · Analysis
Electoral law in the Senate: three majority amendments against almost seven hundred
The deadline in the Constitutional Affairs committee expired on September 1st. The chamber is expected to take up the matter on September 9th, with a final vote scheduled by the 15th: the timetable is tighter than the number of texts to be voted on.
- Europe · Analysis
Berlin attributes Leipzig drone to Russia and announces diplomatic measures
The federal government links the attempted attack of 4 August at Leipzig/Halle airport to Moscow: closure of the consulate general in Bonn, termination of the contract for the Russian House in Berlin, new sanctions. On the same day, the Union's foreign ministers meet in Ireland.
- Chronicle · Analysis
Nepal and Tibet, over a thousand dead in the Bhote Koshi flood and nearly four thousand missing-person reports
The Nepalese authority's bulletin at 9am on September 1 counts 987 recovered bodies; with the 16 deaths reported in Tibet, the overall toll exceeds one thousand for the first time. Only 4% of the bodies have been identified.
- Economy & Markets · Analysis
Employment in the OECD area: unemployment at 4.9%, but the organisation flags weakening
The Employment Outlook 2026 describes labour markets that are still solid yet cooling at the same time. Italy posts its record employment rate, 62.8%, and remains 9.3 points below the area average. One chapter is devoted to non-compete clauses.
- Culture · Analysis
Capri celebrates two hundred years of the Blue Grotto with an exhibition on its own myth
At the Certosa di San Giacomo, home since 2024 to the National Archaeological Museum of Capri, the exhibition curated by Massimo Osanna and Luca Di Franco remains open until 18 October. On display is a 1792 view by Hackert, shown on the island for the first time.
- Sport · Analysis
Taranto, Italy at 187 medals two days before the closing of the Mediterranean Games
Sixty-three gold, 65 silver and 59 bronze as of September 1: seven podiums short of the Bari 1997 record, with two days of competition still to go. The event closes on September 3.
- Film & Entertainment · Analysis
Venice 83 opens with Danny Boyle's "Ink" and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to George Clooney
The 83rd International Film Festival begins today at the Lido and closes on September 12. Twenty films in competition, jury chaired by Maggie Gyllenhaal, two Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement.
- Zero's Briefs
Zero's Briefs
Sixteen news items from around the world: end-of-life in Veneto, Ceuta one month later, the constitutional reform in Nicaragua, the landslide on Monviso, US macroeconomic data and French rules on sick leave.
- Editorial
Two sections uncovered, and why
We open with the U.S. strikes near Hormuz and the response announced by Tehran. Health and Tech & AI remain today without an article: we explain what we looked into and why it wasn't enough.
- Backlight
Nicaragua, a first-reading reform reported as already completed
Parliament approved the postponement of elections to 2028 during the night of September 1. According to El País, ratification requires a second legislature scheduled for January 18, 2027: a step that lies within the body of the articles, not in the headlines.