Urda, the names of the victims; the rest of the planet did not stop
The afternoon edition updates seven out of ten sections: from the Urda autopsy toll to Intel's stock market collapse, from French squares to Tokyo's festivals. The other three — Italy, Health, Sport — remain as published this morning.
Three days after the collision between two high-speed trains near Urda, Spain, the Institute of Legal Medicine of Toledo has concluded the autopsies on the 69 people who died. Thirty-six have been identified, twenty-seven families have already received notification. No other intact bodies were found in the wreckage of the train, but partial human remains are still to be identified. This is the story that opens this edition: the disaster now enters its slowest phase, that of names.
The rest of the afternoon updates six other sections. In France, where the morning had already reported on social unrest, squares filled up again today — 70,000 police officers and gendarmes deployed nationwide, marches in Paris between porte de Bagnolet and porte de Charenton — while Fitch lowered its outlook on French debt to negative. Two facts that go hand in hand: the protest over the 2027 budget law and the agencies’ assessment of public debt nearing 120% of GDP.
On the markets, the day confirms a fear already in circulation: the technology sector dragged indices down, with Intel losing up to 30% of its value in a single session — over 120 billion in market capitalization wiped out — following Alphabet’s decline on Thursday. Piazza Affari followed the European downward trend. On the opposite front of the same industry, Anthropic filed its application to list on the Nasdaq, declaring revenues of 16.3 billion dollars in the first half of 2026: a sign of how attractive the sector remains to investors even as already-listed stocks fall back.
Cinema and Culture are updated with two stories, one extra-European and one Italian respectively: the opening of the Tokyo International Film Festival, with ‘Godzilla-0.0’ as its centerpiece film, and three exhibitions between Rome and Bologna spanning contemporary art and archaeology.
Finally, Chronicles: the Usb general strike, peaceful for most of the day across more than sixty squares, saw evening tensions in Bologna, on via Stalingrado, after a march that Mayor Lepore described as capable of “changing the country.”
Italy, Health and Sport remain as published this morning at 6:30: no developments have updated them in this edition. The newspaper returns tomorrow morning at the same time.
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