US elections, alert in Poland and a museum reopening: the afternoon update covers six fronts

Polling stations in the United States are open and will remain so for several hours: this afternoon’s update reports on the start of the midterm vote, with over 59 million ballots already cast early according to the University of Florida Voting Lab. There are no projections to report yet, and we will not provide any until they can be verified: the count will come in over the next few hours.

Six sections have been updated since the morning. In Europe, the Polish alert at the border with Russia, declared by Prime Minister Tusk and confirmed by Deputy Defence Minister Tomczyk. In News, the meeting convened at Palazzo Chigi following the cyberattack on supermarket refrigeration systems: the impact in Italy, according to the government’s statement, was limited, with no confirmed health risks. In Tech & AI, Anthropic’s move toward the Japanese market, with a fundraising round of up to $3.5 billion ahead of its listing. In World Affairs and Geopolitics, the series of false bomb threats on Ryanair and LOT flights between Lisbon, Dublin, Manchester, London and Warsaw: no devices were found in any of the cases. In Culture, the opening at the Museo dell’Ara Pacis of the exhibition on Fayum portraits, featuring a previously unpublished piece discovered by the University of Salento’s mission. In Health, the WHO report on inequalities in access to prevention and treatment for non-communicable diseases.

Two course corrections from the initial drafting process. In News, the piece on the state funerals for soldiers killed in Bosnia was replaced midway through production by the article on the cyberattack: the section nonetheless remains covered. In Health, the first version on the WHO report was rewritten with a different angle, the one published today. In Economy and Markets, however, the piece on European stock markets did not pass checks and was not replaced: the section remains the morning one, published and valid.

For Film & Entertainment, Italy and Sport there were no developments warranting an update: the 6:30 AM articles remain in place. Today’s afternoon Briefs round out the picture with Salvini on the budget law and the Brussels summit on EU enlargement.

This is the last edition of the day. We return tomorrow morning at 6:30 AM.