In his first public rally since being shut out of Italy's government, League leader Matteo Salvini has defiantly pledged to force a referendum on the nation's proportional electoral system.
It is the spectre that has haunted the world's oil market for decades. This weekend, geopolitics made a spectacular return, promising to set crude prices ablaze after a drone strike on two vital Saudi production hubs convulsed global energy markets and triggered a war of words between Riyadh, Washington DC and Tehran.
Protesting farmers at factory gates could yet reject the deal that was agreed by the main farming organisations yesterday to end weeks of protests.
Under the deal, beef producers will benefit from an immediate increase in a range of bonuses, including:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped up his bid for far-right votes two days before a closely contested election, convening his cabinet in the occupied West Bank and having it approve legal status for an unauthorised outpost.
Tens of thousands of marchers took to the streets in Hong Kong with a new "protest anthem" yesterday, as pro-democracy protests entered a 15th week.
A weekend drone attack on Saudi Arabia that cut into global energy supplies and halved the kingdom's oil production is threatening to fuel a crisis in the region.
