One drone shot down, another reassessed: the day's update covers Foreign Affairs, Economy, News, Tech, Sport and Cinema

The day’s lead story has changed. Two Italian fighter jets deployed in the NATO mission over the Baltic shot down a drone that had entered Lithuanian airspace, likely — according to Defence Minister Guido Crosetto — of Russian origin. The episode is intertwined with accusations made public yesterday by the US Department of Justice against five individuals linked to Russian services: two distinct events, which the lead piece keeps separate by origin and by source, without merging them into a single narrative.

On the Foreign Affairs front, a clarification has also emerged that deserves careful attention from readers: the timeline of events shows that the alarm circulated on social media on September 8th — a supposed risk of collision between the Shahed drone that crashed in Moldova and Zelensky’s aircraft — does not hold up against the actual timing. The presidential aircraft left Chisinau more than thirty minutes after the drone crash, 160 kilometers away. This is not a correction of one of our articles, but the reconstruction of a fact we had only touched upon when reporting on King Harald V’s funeral on September 10th.

Economy and Markets has updates on three fronts: the political direction of the diesel discount, increasingly oriented toward a reduced cut paired with a bonus of up to 150 euros for low incomes; details of the sixteenth extension under discussion today in the Council of Ministers, with the car tax now on the table; and Wall Street, down on the eve of the Fed — data we state comes from a single source, without independent confirmation at the time of publication.

News is also updated, with the landslide on the Amalfi state road and accusations of negligence against the Costiera mayors; Tech & AI, with Gemini 3.8 Live from Google DeepMind and the IonQ quantum computer; Sport, with the Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Ottawa; Cinema & Entertainment, with the closing of Venice 83 and the Golden Lion awarded to May el-Toukhy.

Culture, Europe, Italy and Health have no developments to report since this morning: the articles published at 6:30 AM remain in place. The next edition will be published tomorrow at 6:30 AM.