The afternoon updates seven fronts, Briefs remain on hold

This second edition updates seven of the ten sections touched this morning. In Foreign Affairs and Geopolitics, the lead follows the second day of consultations in Jerusalem: the new element compared with the expected framework is the rift between United Torah Judaism and Benjamin Netanyahu, with the ultra-Orthodox faction failing to put forward any name for the government’s leadership during the meeting with President Isaac Herzog. On the Arab front, Ra’am and the United Arab List are steering their recommendations toward another name. It is a development that changes the reading given this morning and that the editorial team is following through the next institutional steps.

In Europe, Brussels disbursed 4.36 billion euros to Kyiv and published for the first time a written roadmap setting the end of 2028 as the horizon for closing accession negotiations. In Italy, the 26 billion euro budget has entered the parliamentary hearings phase, which will continue until November 12, in a climate marked by Forza Italia’s demands over resource allocation. In Economy and Markets, bank quarterly reports confirm high margins: Bper with a profit of 2.01 billion in the first nine months (+16.4%) and FinecoBank up 3.88% in trading, while Leonardo retreats despite record results.

In Health, a WHO report on over 3.2 million adolescents in 140 countries notes that a quarter of young people between 11 and 17 did not engage in a single day of physical activity in the week surveyed — an aggregate figure that does not currently allow for breakdowns by area or gender. In Tech & AI, four major companies — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft — are converging on an extension of the robots.txt protocol to signal refusal of model training, with differing adoption timelines among them. In News, a fire in a technical room at the Saronno hospital led to the precautionary evacuation of four patients, with no injuries or cases of smoke inhalation.

The Cinema & Entertainment, Culture and Sport sections remain as published this morning, with no updates in this edition: readers can find them at their respective addresses.

Zero’s Briefs did not come out in this edition, neither in the general form nor in the one dedicated to foreign affairs: no piece replaced them. It is the only missing item from today’s afternoon inventory. The next edition comes out tomorrow morning at 6:30, with the regular coverage of the ten sections.