Overnight attention stayed on the United States, with Trump's Dallas rally launching the midterm campaign with a pledge of $5,000 to every adult American, while the claimed Russian drone near-miss on Zelensky's plane leaving Moldova was scaled back by Kyiv as exaggerated and denied by Moscow.
By morning a woman drowned trapped in a flooded underpass near Udine, and judges kept Valter Lavitola in jail for the Ranucci attack, confirming mafia methods.
Midday the ECB raised rates a quarter point to 2.50%, blaming Iran-war inflation above 2% until 2028. In the Senate the centre-right rejected the opposition amendment on preferences then passed its FdI compromise amid protests, as the government extended the diesel excise cut by a week.
In the evening came the suicide of Denise Cosco, daughter of murdered witness Lea Garofalo, at 35, and a tourist bus overturn in Switzerland with several dead.