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Roughly 930,000 students without Italian citizenship are enrolled in the country’s schools, representing almost 11.6% of the school population, according to research institute Fondazione ISMU. Over the last decade, the number of foreign minors in the country has fallen by 4.5%, ISMU found. Meloni did not elaborate on what her cabinet’s proposed cap on foreign students might entail. The Italian leader came to power buoyed by voters concerned with immigration issues, and made tackling migration a key pillar of her campaign. It’s not the first time Meloni’s government has looked to ban face coverings. In 2025 her party said it…

Published on 20/09/2026 – 15:59 GMT+2•Updated 16:17 Russians are casting their ballots on Sunday in the final day of voting in parliamentary elections, with the pro-Putin United Russia party widely expected to emerge victorious. United Russia has won every parliamentary election in the country since 2003. The 2026 vote marks the first since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, meaning it could offer a slight hint at public sentiment towards the conflict, which has been increasingly impacting Russians at home. However, in August, Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the only party opposing the war – the Yabloko…

Published on 20/09/2026 – 13:43 GMT+2 Germans are heading to the polls on Sunday in two state elections that could prove decisive for Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s future. In Berlin, Merz’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is facing a close fight against Die Linke, which has strong support among young people and has pledged measures to tackle the housing crisis. In the coastal state of Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania in northeastern Germany, the main race is between the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the hard-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD). The AfD comes into Sunday’s vote fresh off the back of its election…

Published on 20/09/2026 – 8:17 GMT+2•Updated 8:23 US embassies across the Middle East have issued security alerts warning Americans to maintain “heightened vigilance” following attacks by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels on Saudi Arabia. Embassies in Bahrain, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE said the “military conflict has the potential to escalate rapidly” and that the security environment remained “complex.” The alerts also advised people to “be aware of potential flight cancellations, airspace closures, and travel disruptions.” It comes after the Houthi rebels on Saturday said they had carried out two operations using ballistic and…

Published on 20/09/2026 – 8:27 GMT+2•Updated 10:15 Ed Sheeran opened a concert on Saturday with comments about Gaza after controversy swirled around his tour and supporting acts withdrew in solidarity with opener Macklemore, who was dropped after making pro-Palestinian comments onstage at an earlier show. Sheeran began the concert alone on stage with no opener, but was joined by other musicians later in the show. Sheeran said he wants his music and shows to be about unity and humanity, not politics. But he said that while the attacks in Israel of 7 October, 2023, were horrific, what is happening in…

Welcome back to this newsletter, written en route from Strasbourg to Brussels, after a week of parliamentary coverage. In case you missed it, Mark Carney stole the show and Canada is our new associate BFF, whatever that means. It’s easy to be cynical about the Canadian Prime Minister, but anyone who makes an intellectual effort citing Goethe on a Thursday morning gets my attention amid the sea of poor orators that populate the annual State of the Union (the EU’s, to be clear). Carney chose his references deliberately, reaching for Faust right off the bat. One can only hope the…

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed attacks had been carried out against infrastructure facilities in and around Moscow. “Our long-range responses had a very significant impact in the Moscow region last night. One of Russia’s key oil industry facilities and the aggressor’s logistics facility were hit,” he said on X. Russian voters have been heading to the polls this weekend in the first parliamentary elections since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party is expected to retain its dominance in the parliament and present the win as proof of public support for…

Published on 20/09/2026 – 11:16 GMT+2•Updated 11:27 French President Emmanuel Macron hailed France’s relationship with Canada during a trip to Saint Pierre and Miquelon this weekend. Macron is visiting the French overseas collectivity from 19 to 21 September and is due to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney there on Sunday. Speaking to reporters from the archipelago, which sits just off the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Macron said the goal of the visit was to help the territory “turn a new page” and gently pushed back on suggestions that the trip was intended to make a statement.…

Published on 20/09/2026 – 9:30 GMT+2•Updated 9:33 Reporters from three major news organisations were denied access to the White House on Saturday, a day after US President Donald Trump said he was barring them because of reporting he found to be “fake news.” The media outlets, CNN, MS NOW and Politico, have previously been targeted by the Republican president, particularly CNN, who Trump kicks his antics up a notch, regularly mocking their reporters and lambasting their authenticity. The actions were a clear escalation of Trump’s long-running efforts — in the courts and through administrative action — to restrict news coverage…