Zero's Briefs

Economy — Mps trades above the value of Intesa’s offer — At this morning’s prices, Intesa Sanpaolo’s offer for Banca Mps is worth around 11.12 euros per share, while the Mps stock trades at 11.188 euros, roughly 0.6% above that value: the market is pricing in a possible increase, according to Economia Italia.

Foreign — Sudan, 12.4 million displaced — Fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces is intensifying in North Kordofan; the conflict has displaced over 12.4 million people and the UN’s 2026 humanitarian plan is only 41% funded, according to AllAfrica, currently the only available source.

Foreign — Costa Rica opens a prison with 5,100 beds — The government opened the High Containment Center against organized crime in Alajuela, modeled on the Salvadoran approach: according to the Ministry of Justice, at full capacity prison overcrowding would drop from 59% to 15%, reports Teletica.

Tech — The Pt reports Meta to the OAS during Brazil’s runoff — Lula’s campaign accuses Meta of manipulations on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook; the company attributes the issue to a global October 7 outage affecting view counts, according to UOL Notícias.

News — Fire on a chemical tanker in the Black Sea, eight missing — Eight crew members are missing after a fire on a San Marino-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Romania, in an area where unconfirmed drones had been spotted the previous night, according to Il Resto del Carlino, currently the only available source.

News — Former Ilva workers occupy the Genoa Prefecture — Several dozen workers broke into the building after three days of protest, demonstrating against the closure of the Cornigliano plant; the former Ilva commissioners confirm that the Genoa, Taranto and Novi Ligure plants remain open, according to the ANSA news agency, as reported by Sky TG24.

Italy — Mattarella calls for limiting national observance days — After signing into law the bill on the National Paper Recycling Day, the head of state wrote to the Chamber and the Senate noting 36 laws establishing national observance days over the last three legislatures, 20 of which in the current one, according to la Repubblica.

Europe — Kropyvnytskyi, over ten-hour Russian attack — During the night and morning of October 15, a Russian bombardment on the Kirovohrad region, lasting over ten hours according to rescuers, killed three people and wounded six in Kropyvnytskyi, striking production sites and homes in 25 localities, according to Ukrainska Pravda.