Diesel, EU budget and bad weather: seven sections updated, three remain as this morning

The 4:30 PM edition updates seven of this morning’s ten sections: Italy, Europe, World and Geopolitics, Economy and Markets, Health, Tech & AI, News. For Cinema & Entertainment, Culture and Sport, this morning’s edition still stands, and remains published and available: no developments have affected them in the afternoon.

The story driving the day the most is the phone agreement between Trump and Putin on Russian diesel, announced last night and reconstructed here with details emerged in the last few hours: a six-month suspension of US sanctions, supplies of up to 4.8 million tonnes. Overnight, Ukrainian drones struck the Rostov terminal — a development that intersects with the agreement, though available sources do not allow for establishing a direct link. The same dossier explains why oil is falling on Wall Street while US diesel futures lose nearly 5%: this morning’s Economy and Markets section has been updated on this point.

In World, the story fills the space left by a piece on Gaza that was dropped during production: the section is not left uncovered, it simply carries a different story.

In Europe, the development is the Irish presidency’s draft for the 2028-2034 EU budget: a cut of 141 billion compared to the Commission’s proposal, with the competitiveness-research-defence chapter hit hardest in proportion. This is a proposal, not a decision: the vote by the ambassadors of the Twenty-Seven is set for Sunday.

In Italy, the development is a statement by Salvini on the prospect of the legislature lasting until autumn 2027, reported by a single source. It adds to, without replacing, this morning’s news on the green light for the Stabilicum electoral reform — which readers can still find where it was.

News updates yesterday’s bad weather bulletin: no longer just Naples and Lazio, but a flooded Lipari with families freed in the afternoon, along with reports of a landslide and tornado in the South. The orange alert remains confirmed.

Health and Tech carry two stories not reported this morning: the theme chosen by the WHO for World Mental Health Day, and Mistral’s Large 4, which returns a European lab to the ranks of leading open-access models — news reported so far by a single technical source.

This is today’s final edition. We return tomorrow morning at 6:30 with full coverage of all ten sections.