Zero's Briefs

Italy — Truckers’ strike, Sicily revokes blockade — The local committee of Sicilian truckers has revoked the stoppage, while in the rest of the South the pickets continue pending a new meeting with the government, set for a week from now. The national flight assistance agency reports fuel supplies exhausted at the Crotone and Reggio Calabria airports. Source: AGI.

World — India, 130 million names removed from electoral rolls — A review of the electoral rolls has led to the removal of 130 million names, in what sources describe as the largest wave of voter disenfranchisement in the country’s history. The news currently comes from a single source (NPR); no independent confirmation available. Source: NPR.

World — Burkina Faso reinstates the death penalty — The National Legislative Assembly unanimously approved, with 71 lawmakers, a new Criminal Code of 933 articles that restores capital punishment for offences such as terrorism, espionage and treason, abolished in 2018. The country’s last execution dates back to 1988. Source: Agence d’Information du Burkina.

Europe — Brussels opens Dsa investigation into Booking.com — The European Commission will verify whether the platform has assessed and mitigated the risks of fraudulent and phishing advertisements, and whether it has correctly labelled the most visible paid listings as advertising. The proceeding also concerns the sharing of booking data with accommodation providers. Source: European Commission.

News in brief — Truck fire on the A1, stretch reopened in two hours — A heavy vehicle carrying Coca-Cola caught fire near kilometre 431, forcing the closure of the Fabro-Orvieto stretch in the direction of Rome from 8:30 to 10:30. Autostrade per l’Italia set up alternative routes. The news currently comes from a single source (La Nazione); no independent confirmation available. Source: La Nazione.

News in brief — Fire destroys a house near Verona, two injured airlifted — A fire that broke out shortly before 10am on Wednesday in a three-storey house in the hamlet of Moruri injured two occupants, who were taken to hospital, and destroyed the building; spread to neighbouring houses was avoided. The news currently comes from a single source (Verona Fire Brigade); no independent confirmation available. Source: Il Dolomiti.

Tech — Germany, alert over computer flaw: websites taken offline — Germany’s cybersecurity authority has updated an alert on a vulnerability said to particularly affect Php-based web applications, warning of the risk of a wave of attacks. In Berlin, several agencies, including hospitals and the federal police, have temporarily taken their websites offline as a precaution. The news currently comes from a single source (RBB/Tagesschau); no independent confirmation available. Source: Tagesschau.

Sport — NBA, season tips off: Pistons stage comeback, LeBron debuts with Sixers — The Detroit Pistons came back from 22 points down to beat the Boston Celtics 121-113 on opening night of the season. The Philadelphia 76ers beat the New York Knicks 106-100 on the evening of the ring ceremony, marking LeBron James’s debut in his new jersey. The news currently comes from a single source (NBA, official league results); no independent confirmation available. Source: OA Sport.