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The author wrote that Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre had called Vladimir Putin from Helsinki for a conversation lasting an hour and a half. They said Kyiv had thanked them, while Copenhagen and Sweden had reacted with concern and Moscow had delivered a history lecture. The author urged Nordic countries to preserve their unity and repair the rift. https://t.co/msCdf2l7Km #NordicCooperation #Diplomacy #PoliticalAlliance #FI #NO #UA #DK #SE #RU

A police officer, Andrea Cecchini, described a demonstration in Rome where about a hundred people, armed with blunt objects and with their faces covered, attempted to attack the police, throwing Molotov cocktails and making death threats. #Roma #Manifestazione #Tensioni (translated)

The Parliamentary Budget Office warns that the proposal for exemption from vehicle tax for the first cars owned requires structural coverage and an assessment of the tax system to avoid economic issues and negative impacts on regional finance. #bolloauto #esenzione #famiglie (translated)

The author wrote that Forza Italia was working on a maneuver to support the middle class, families, and businesses, to eliminate taxes for young people, and to provide the elderly with a card to pay for treatments not covered by the national health service. He added that the party was also engaged on other fronts, without specifying them. #cetoMedio #famiglie #imprese #IT (translated)

Matteo Salvini has renewed his trust in overcoming the Fornero law to allow retirement at 64 years, emphasizing the importance of adequate economic coverage and other priorities for the League such as tax simplification and security. #LeggeFornero #Pensioni #EconomiaItalia (translated)

News - Barça stated, citing Cope, that Pau Cubarsí would miss the trip from Barcelona to London despite his nomination for the Ballon d'Or. The defender would need rest and time to recover after having played the Clásico while having a fever. #BallonDor #FCBarcelona #Football (translated)

THE "BATTLE OF CERIGNOLA (1503)" ON "POPULAR ARCHAEOLOGY USA" (by LUCIANO MAGALDI SARDELLA) SOURCE 1: https://popular-archaeology.com/author/sardella/ SOURCE 2: https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-2026-battlefield-archaeology-of-the-battle-of-cerignola-1503/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- CERIGNOLA (FG) — On April 28, 1503, at sunset, a shallow trench cut between the vineyards outside Cerignola rendered heavy cavalry obsolete. For five centuries, its exact location has only been conjectured, its archaeology ignored, its most important sources never translated into English. We are on the Tavoliere of Puglia, a corridor of battles for two thousand years: from Cannae in 216 BC to the falcon hunt of Frederick II from Torre Alemanna. Cerignola, at that time, was not a city but a rural village of 350 families at 120 meters above sea level, custodian of the Mena della Dogana delle Pecore, the great pastoral system of transhumance that financed the Kingdom of Naples. Its possession was fiercely contested. Facing each other were two worlds. Louis d’Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, Viceroy of Naples for Louis XII, in his thirties, splendidly armored, confident of victory. On the other side was Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, the Gran Capitán, who on April 27-28 marched from Barletta with about 9,000 exhausted men and decided to settle on a low ridge. He deepened what was already there: not an invention, but an agricultural ditch. The French gendarmes, the last heirs of the medieval knight, lowered their lances and never reached the line. From behind a parapet reinforced with vine stakes, over 1,000 Spanish arquebusiers opened fire. Nemours fell, almost certainly the first European army commander to die from a portable firearm. With him, the charge of cavalry as a dominant tactic died. And here is the scandal denounced by the article: no cartographer of the 17th-18th centuries ever mapped the battlefield. No monument commemorates it. It is not protected as a cultural landscape under the Code of Cultural Heritage. Every deep plowing of the Tavoliere, standard practice since the Bourbon reforms, destroys an archaeology never recorded. Yet the perimeter can be reconstructed. By cross-referencing the 16th-century descriptions of "vine-covered slopes fifteen miles north of the Ofanto" with the Via Traiana, the engagement area is a rectangle of 3-4 square kilometers northeast of the current settlement. With the 1m LiDAR DTM from ISPRA, it could reveal anomalous linear depressions, and the lower filling of a ditch 2-3 meters deep, under the plowed layer, is still readable with magnetometry and ground radar. Why did we arrive late? Not for lack of sources, but for lack of translation. The Municipality of Cerignola and the Torre Alemanna Research and Study Center of Prof. Matteo Stuppiello, who in 1978 obtained the first monumental protection for Torre Alemanna, have digitized a corpus that has never entered Anglophone historiography. Here are the 3 pillars: 1. The letter that still smells of gunpowder. The “Letter from Consalvo de Córdoba to the Spanish royals dated April 29, 1503,” edited by Stuppiello in 2003 and updated to 2025 on comune.cerignola.fg.it/biblioteche-digitali. A handwritten page written in Cerignola the day after the battle, “rich in flashes, twilight lights, and gunfire.” Not a polished chronicle like that of Giovio, but a field dispatch: the fatigue of the night march, the decision to entrench upon arrival, the recovery and honorable burial of Nemours, the intact capture of the French artillery. 2. The graffiti, a monument inside the monument. In the 14th-century church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, known as the Incoronatella, on the Via Trinitapoli Vecchia, where tradition holds that the body of Nemours was brought. On the triumphal arch, a 1503 graffiti gives, in almost notarized form, the date, sixth indiction, Friday at the hour XXIII-XXIIII. It was indeed Friday, as confirmed by the perpetual calendar of Cappelli. Decoded in 1995 by Prof. Francesco Magistrale, Latin paleographer at the University of Bari, in *The Battle of Cerignola (1993)* and in the municipal monograph *S.M. delle Grazie (1999)*. Today it is fading due to humidity and neglect. 3. The land registry that explains the ditch. The Survey of 1672 preserved at the State Archive of Naples, Pignatelli Aragona Cortes fund, Scanzia 63, fasc.1: “At the time of the battle, thick vineyards covered the hill reaching to the plain, and were distinctly separated from the rest of the countryside by a not very deep ditch.” Córdoba did not improvise; he adapted. This is confirmed by the catasti of the Giustiniani: 277 households in 1532, 699 in 1595. The landscape of 1503 was intensely horticultural, not the deeply plowed monoculture of today. In addition to these, there is the first monograph by Vincenzo Buonassisi, *The Battle of Cerignola* (1908, died in Via Fanfulla 10 on June 27, 1928), and the first modern military analysis by Piero Pieri, “Consalvo de Córdoba and the Battle of Cerignola,” Archivio Storico Pugliese 1952, which 30 years before the Anglophone rediscovery of the “pike-and-shot” defined Cerignola as an engineered killing ground. While Cerignola forgot, others remembered. The “Regimiento de Infantería Cerinola n.42”, later “Fuerteventura n.56”, carried the name of Cerignola until the 20th century. The coat of arms, described in *Heraldica e Historiales del Ejercito, Tomo V” (Madrid, 1981): silver field, dying white swan entangled in a hedge, golden wall crown, with the scroll “Cerignola.” Dossier officially transmitted on April 30, 1986, prot. 4565/509, from the Servicio Histórico Militar of Madrid to the Torre Alemanna Center thanks to Col. Alessio Antonutti and Gen. José Cifuentes. And in Amsterdam, at the Rijksmuseum, the anonymous bronze commemorative medal: Hercules with lion skin and club and Janus with the keys next to an eagle-armed coat of arms, legend “Consalvus Agidarius… Janum clausit,” on the reverse a battle scene “Consalvi Agidari Victoria de Gallis ad Cannas,” an artist's mistake that confuses Cerignola with Cannae. It belonged to Mrs. J.M. van Gelder-Nijhoff, donated in 1885. The author's conclusion is clear: Gonzalo's ditch is the most consequential earthwork in European military history. It inaugurates the infantry armed with firearm and conditions the Mediterranean for 160 years. It may still be there, filled, plowed, invisible to the naked eye but accessible to a magnetometer. It is not a matter of medieval archaeology but of the will to protect. (translated)

RESEARCHES AND ANALYSES ON ELECTIONS stated that the website Global Elections, which it classified as popular among the far-right, had previously made an error in estimating the electoral outcome in New Zealand. According to the author, the site projected 71.7% of the votes for President Lula, but the result was 80.5%. The publication also said that the site anticipated a victory for "Chocolates Copenhagen" with 52.26% of the valid votes. #Eleições2023 #NovaZelândia #Política (translated)

⚖️ In 2020, 1.8 million deaths from non-communicable diseases before the age of 75 were considered avoidable in the WHO European Region: about 60% were due to preventable causes. 📉 The report analyzes trends in tobacco, alcohol, physical activity, obesity, and diabetes since 2010, as well as the adoption of prevention and care policies. 📒 Avoidable mortality, risk factors and policies for tackling noncommunicable diseases in the WHO European Region ✍️ WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen. Writing: Ivo Rakovac, Gauden Galea, Nadia Scott, Laura Vremis, Stephan Spat, Allison Ekberg, Sergei Bychkov, Natalia Fedkina, and Sumudu Kasturiarachchi, Special Initiative on Noncommunicable Diseases and Innovation Audio Capsules of Health Practices 🎙️🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-al1KNLSOo Analysis of Health Practices and link to the source ℹ️➕ https://www.pratiquesensante.com/blog/pratiques-15/mortalite-evitable-facteurs-de-risque-et-politiques-de-lutte-contre-les-maladies-non-transmissibles-dans-la-region-europeenne-de-l-oms-6285 📌 For health, prevention, and medico-social professionals, this report provides arguments to advocate for the role of prevention to decision-makers and funders, while highlighting the need for accessible and quality care (p. viii-ix, 59). It helps to place actions on tobacco, alcohol, diet, or physical activity within a common strategy for reducing chronic diseases, rather than in isolated interventions. It also reminds that action must focus on living conditions and environments, and not just on individual behaviors, involving multiple sectors and civil society (p. 65). Data concerning France allows for situating national issues in the European context (annex 3). A resource to support a project, mobilize partners, or inform a diagnosis, to be complemented by local data: the report does not allow to determine alone the priorities of a territory nor to precisely choose the modalities of intervention. 🇬🇧: Avoidable mortality, risk factors and policies for tackling noncommunicable diseases in the WHO European Region - https://www.pratiquesensante.com/en/blog/practices-15/avoidable-mortality-risk-factors-and-policies-for-tackling-noncommunicable-diseases-in-the-who-european-region-6285 #️⃣ #pratiquesensante #NonCommunicableDiseases #AvoidableMortality #PrimaryPrevention #WHOEurope #RiskFactors #HealthInequalities #HealthInAllPolicies #pratiquesensante #MaladiesNonTransmissibles #MortalitéÉvitable #PréventionPrimaire #OMSEurope #FacteursDeRisque #InégalitésDeSanté #SantéDansToutesLesPolitiques (translated)

An investigation by the Telegraph revealed that over five hundred Russian trawlers have operated near critical underwater cables between Europe and the United States, suggesting espionage activities under the guise of commercial fishing. #Spionaggio #CaviSottomarini #Russia (translated)

Eric Zemmour presented robotics as a future for the French industry. He recalled that Archimedes, Copernicus, Pascal, and the Lumière brothers illustrated, in his opinion, the importance of innovation and techniques in the greatness of civilization, to which France had always contributed. He believed that after allowing its industrial power to be preyed upon by China and the rest of the world, the country should not abandon its technological future to them. According to him, robots could enable France to reindustrialize while preserving its identity. #Robotique #Innovation #Industrie (translated)

The dataref account stated that Estudiantes de La Plata had won all the knockout semifinals they played in the CONMEBOL Libertadores: against Racing Club 4-3 in 1968, Universidad Católica 6-2 in 1969, River Plate 4-1 in 1970, Nacional 3-1 in 2009, and Flamengo 3-2 in the penalty shootout, after drawing 0-0, in 2026. It also noted that the team was crowned champion in the previous four editions and shared a link with live statistical records. https://t.co/hmQtYejtAi #Libertadores #Estudiantes #Fútbol (translated)

San Marino Football highlighted the great match that, in its opinion, Estudiantes played at Maracanã. It pointed out that the team, despite being reduced to 10 players, maintained order and continued to stand firm against Flamengo. It also described the team as one very accustomed to cup competitions and qualified its series as spectacular, regardless of the outcome of that day. #Estudiantes #Flamengo #Copa (translated)

Infrastructure and Mobility Ep. 13 – Livada Poștei: Palatul Wilhelm Czell Area – Rectorate – County Library – Army House https://litera9.com/infrastructura-si-mobilitate-ep-13-livada-postei-zona-palatul-wilhelm-czell-rectorat-biblioteca-judeteana-casa-armatei/ Cover photo: Rudolf Park, 1962 – source: Gruia Hilohi (translated)