Morning papers stayed on Kimi Antonelli's world title secured the night before in Mexico, stressing the double record as youngest champion at 20 and first Italian 73 years after Ascari, with Meloni hailing national pride.
Attention then turned to Italians dead abroad. Authorities identified the two Italian victims of the Toledo train collision — an Italo-Argentine and an Italo-Venezuelan woman among at least 69 dead — while the C130 carrying the four soldiers killed in the Brcko helicopter crash landed at Ciampino, where Mattarella, Meloni and Crosetto received the Tricolore-draped coffins.
By afternoon coverage shifted to coordinated cyberattacks on supermarket refrigeration systems, first reported in Belgium, Sweden, Estonia, Luxembourg and Ireland with freezers pushed above 50 degrees. The EU described it as an attempt to disrupt food supplies. Evening editions reported cases in Sicily, Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, with Palazzo Chigi convening an urgent meeting with intelligence officials.