Two buses, two wars: the one that kills and the one over the accounts

We open with Kramatorsk because the toll — 78 dead in recent days according to Zelensky, combining the attack on the buses and the earlier one on a residential building in Pryluky — is the gravest figure of the day, reported by multiple sources and with numbers updated at the time of publication. We say this with the caution that war reporting requires: the tolls remain separated by oblast, come from Ukrainian authorities, and we treat them as such.

Immediately after, Italy: the Chamber of Deputies has given final approval to the new electoral law, an institutional fact that changes the rules of national political competition and comes at the end of weeks of tension over the stability of the majority. We place it in the Italy section because that is what it is, not because Italy deserves priority over the rest of the world — and indeed the third story comes from France, where the fourth day of student protests brought more than 71,000 people onto the streets: a figure confirmed by the Interior Ministry, and which adds to a toll of injured that grows week after week.

The IMF warns on global public debt heading toward 100% of GDP: a macroeconomic figure that concerns all the countries read by this newspaper, not only Italy, and which enters our pages with the numbers stated by Kristalina Georgieva ahead of the Bangkok assemblies.

Two Nobel Prizes close the science and culture section: the one for Literature to Anne Carson, the Canadian poet and essayist who reworks classical tradition, and the one for Physics, awarded this year for the neutrinos detected in Antarctic ice. The same caution stated in the pieces applies to both: for Literature the news comes from a single source, the announcement by the Swedish Academy, with no independent confirmation currently available.

We also flag two systemic readings: the Eurostat projection on the decline of the European population from 2029, and the Copernicus data on the hottest summer ever recorded in Western Europe in 2026 — two stories that measure slow phenomena, not events of the day, and for this reason belong in the sections that host them.

The Atm strike in Milan, the Singapore Grand Prix that could settle the drivers’ championship, the safety notice on Ocrevus and the programme of the Rome Film Fest complete today’s coverage. On the Ocrevus safety notice we stay within bounds: we report the content of the monitoring released by Roche together with Ema and Aifa, without any clinical assessment by this newsroom.

No section is left uncovered today. The doubt we carry at the end of the day is the same as every day of war: the numbers from the front change quickly, and what we publish this morning is the most recent verifiable account, not the last possible one.