Overnight coverage stayed on the US midterms fallout, with Trump calling the vote rigged and blaming Democrats for a Wall Street selloff that spread to Asia and Milan, Nasdaq down 5% and Piazza Affari opening down 1.5%.
By mid-morning attention shifted to a second day of bomb alerts across European airspace. A Ryanair Rome-Lisbon flight landed in Lisbon for checks and a Wizz Air Prague-Rome flight was diverted to Venice, while threats hit flights over France, Prague and Copenhagen and forced evacuations of Dublin newsrooms. Outlets reported a claim email warning 'it's only the beginning', Milan prosecutors opening a file and Meloni saying she was concerned.
In the evening the nomination of Lega-linked Altieri to lead the Anac collapsed over incompatibility claims and he withdrew, as Trump named Stephen Miller chief of staff and Pope Leo XIV landed in Montevideo.