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Crispin Mazanza reported that the provincial director of national education of Haut-Katanga, Joseph Mwinkeu Tshiend, launched a training for school heads on good school governance and human rights on Monday, October 12, 2026, at the 30 June building in Lubumbashi. According to Mazanza, the session was led by Joseph Eric Muzuma, president of the International Dynamics of Human Rights Activists. He explained that education on human rights should instill dignity, equality, tolerance, and mutual respect in students, as well as help them understand their rights and duties. The program included a module on school governance based on rights, presented by university professor Samuel Minga Bope. It specifically covered legality, financial and administrative accountability, citizen participation, and equal opportunities without discrimination. The goal, according to Mazanza's report, was to promote transparent and participatory management in accordance with national and international legal frameworks related to children's rights. During the official launch, Mwinkeu Tshiend reminded school heads that their authority should be exercised in accordance with regulations and in service to students and the community. He urged them to concretely apply the lessons from the training in their administrative, educational, and pedagogical practices. Mazanza also reported that Muzuma believed that by the end of the session, participants would be better able to integrate human rights into school management, contribute to a safe and inclusive school environment, and prevent or peacefully resolve conflicts. #Éducation #DroitsHumains #BonneGouvernance (translated)

Luis Enrique stated that Parisian supporters often told him that he had changed their lives. However, he felt that one should not exaggerate the importance of football, reminding that there are things far more important. The coach added that he was touched to know that his work had been able to bring something to people and that he had been able to share strong moments with them and their families. He noted that these testimonials strengthened his motivation and sense of responsibility, and that he had to prove himself worthy of the trust given to him. These words were reported by Actu Foot, according to PSG TV. #PSG #Football #LuisEnrique (translated)

Actu Foot reported that Pau Cubarsí responded to Real Madrid's complaints about the refereeing by saying that he paid little attention to it. He explained that he was more focused on his club, the team's play, and what they could offer their supporters. According to him, external matters did not interest them much, except for the positive elements they could take from the comments. #RealMadrid #arbitrage #football (translated)

Patrick Kabengele wondered whether to give the armies the means to end the war or to respond to the demands of those who considered themselves superior to others. He also advised labor inspectors to drink water and stay calm. https://t.co/52vE3xpK1Q #Guerre #Armée #Travail (translated)

The France team announced that the Blues would face Turkey at the Stade Atlantique in Bordeaux on Sunday, November 15 at 8:45 PM, for their last group stage match of the Nations League. The account stated that ticket sales would open on October 13 at 2 PM for FFF licensees and members of the Supporters Club, then on October 22 at 2 PM for the general public. It also warned against fraudulent sites and advised purchasing tickets only from the official FFF website. https://t.co/1xv0ADDlaH. #LigueDesNations #LesBleus #Football (translated)

Wankil Studio had indicated that the gloop could cause nausea, vomiting, and spontaneous combustion. The account had also advised to keep it protected from light, in a ventilated room between 12 and 26 °C, and not to mix it with alcohol. It had added that due to European regulations, the product would only be sold in DIY stores, in the paint section. #Sécurité #Santé #Peinture (translated)

The author condemned a cyberattack that allegedly targeted food products at Intermarché, Coopérative U, and Leclerc. He stated that food security required more attention at all levels, asserting that the instrumentalization of food had become a reality. He also mentioned UEFrance. #SécuritéAlimentaire #Cybersécurité #Alimentation #FR #UE (translated)

The recent statements by Donald Trump questioning the legitimacy of the Ukrainian president and lifting sanctions against Russia for diesel exports are causing divisions within the Republican Party as it seeks to divert attention from the war in Iran and inflation. #DonaldTrump #Ukraine #Républicains (translated)

GeoTales described a scenario where several agricultural regions would be simultaneously affected, while dam production would decrease, trade routes would be disrupted, and populations would experience exceptional heat. It specified that the term "super El Niño" referred to an episode of about +2 °C or more in the Niño 3.4 area, without constituting a universal category comparable to that of cyclones. According to GeoTales, the bulletin published on October 8 by the World Meteorological Organization forecasted an average anomaly of about +3.7 °C in this area for the period from October to December, with a peak around December. It also reported that NOAA assessed the probability of reaching at least +2.5 °C over three months at 83% according to its RONI index, mentioning an episode likely to exceed those observed since 1950. It emphasized that the two agencies used different methods, but their figures indicated an exceptionally intense event. GeoTales explained that observations showed increased heat beneath the surface of the Pacific, a deeper thermocline, as well as anomalies in westerly winds and precipitation in the central and eastern parts of the ocean. It reminded that El Niño is a natural phenomenon and estimated that it would be too simplistic to attribute this episode solely to climate change, while adding that background warming could exacerbate its consequences. To illustrate the possible impacts, GeoTales mentioned Guatemala, citing a video published the day before by LIMIT Media. It wrote that in the "dry corridor" that also crosses Honduras and El Salvador, the lack of rain and crop losses were already undermining the food and income of families relying on maize and bean cultivation. #ElNiño #ChangementClimatique #Météo (translated)

350 stations will receive special attention. The government must meet with the distributors during a first meeting, confirmed Serge Papin, the Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce, Handicrafts, Tourism, and Purchasing Power during an interview on France 2. #Carburant #PrixDuCarburant #Economie (translated)

LETTERE MERIDIANE — “TEATRO-EDICOLA” OF SAN SEVERO CONQUERS THE WORLD SOURCE: https://www.letteremeridiane.org/2026/10/il-teatro-edicola-di-san-severo-conquista-il-mondo/?fbclid=IwY2xjawU4oqFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5rVEwYs6UUXg7v-P0SyIQ_DRb_F6ZiY58OcseYoV4J7atcTiERnhWaqKM2pw_aem_Njle1jq1XLzHr93KLBUcVA After “Broadway World”, the “Los Angeles Journal”, “The Psychologist (British Psychological Association)” and Hollywood Beat Magazine, its “academic consecration” has now arrived courtesy of Stanford University. As I have already emphasised in my article on the revival of the GIO Festival in Foggia, celebrated by BroadwayWorld for the world stage premiere of the Giordano’s opera Marina (1888), the province of Foggia has long ceased to be peripheral. It happens when it finds an idea that shifts the coordinates: well, in San Severo, 40 kilometres from Foggia, it has happened again. Only this time an orchestra was not needed; six chairs were enough. The celebrated Teatro-Edicola of San Severo artistic director Francesco Gravino of the theatre company Foyer ’97 has been featured in the academic journal “Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)” as an academic case study. The news, relayed on 19 September 2026 by ANSA Nazionale, looked like a misprint. Then it became clear that it was not. SSIR, an award-winning publication covering multisectoral solutions to global problems, included the project in its Dispatches section with the reportage “The Six-Seat Revolution”. It is the inverse trajectory to that of the GIO Festival: not a forgotten opera returning to a grand historic Italian horseshoe theatre, but an entire theatre reborn inside a disused place, forgotten by man. There are moments when past and future intertwine to create something visionary, innovative, artistically “revolutionary”: San Severo experienced one of those moments on the morning of 27 March 2026, during World Theatre Day, when the shutter of a newsstand closed for six years in Via Matteo Tondi was reopened “not to sell newspapers, but to offer stirring stories”, to quote Gravino’s motto. The idea of the visionary Francesco Gravino, artistic director, stage director and actor of the San Severo company Foyer ’97, active for at least 30 years in Capitanata, centred on the kiosk, hexagonal in metal and glass, granted free of charge by its owner Pino Frau, by now an urban relic created by the publishing crisis of the early 2000s: today in Italy active newsstands have fallen from about 35,000 in 2005 to about 20,000 in 2024, a decline of 42.8%. Gravino and eleven other actors restructured it in two weeks of work, without institutional funding, and transformed it into what is now under examination by the London commission of Guinness World Records as the “world’s smallest theatre”. The formula is deliberately austere: six spectators at a time outside, actors inside at less than a metre’s distance, 15-minute performances, continuous rotation from 11:00 to 20:45, texts ranging from Goldoni to Chekhov, from Ibsen to Dacia Maraini. On the door a QR code with an original theatrical warning: “Warning! This QR code transforms passers-by into actors. Scan only if ready.” The numbers immediately showed that it was no boutade: more than 60 people in a single afternoon, three inaugural days that sold out. But above all a positive echo that went beyond the borders of San Severo. “Broadway World” (just as in the previous case of the GIO Festival), the world’s most influential theatre criticism outlet with over 5.5 million monthly views, devoted exclusive coverage to it on 27 April 2026: “An Abandoned Italian Newsstand Just Became the World’s Smallest Theatre”. Not a mere listing, but an analysis: “There is no foyer, there is no balcony, there is no grid. There is barely a wing. What there is is something almost unrecognisable as an evening at the theatre, and for that very reason it is all the more powerful.” “Broadway World” captured Gravino’s manifesto idea: “This is a theatre of proximity. In an era of digital distance, we are putting human contact back at the centre,” framing it as “More than a clever exercise in site-specific theatre. It is a reappropriation.” All of this, in a Mezzogiorno of Italy often narrated only in terms of organised crime and marginalisation. To that seal of approval was added another, even more disorienting for a newsstand in San Severo: the “Los Angeles Journal”, one of the most influential publications on the West Coast for the performing arts. On 12 May 2026, it headlined thus: “San Severo’s Teatro-Edicola as an Innovative Model for Los Angeles Theaters?” opening as follows: “In a city in southern Italy that Hollywood has never heard of, a theatre director has just built the smallest stage in the world: six seats, fifteen minutes, zero distance. Los Angeles should pay attention.” The “Los Angeles Journal” does not indulge in folklore, but places the kiosk in Via Matteo Tondi alongside the prestigious 1,600-seat Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, the Pantages of Broadway in Hollywood, the 99-seat plan of Rogue Machine, the Odyssey, the Victory Theatre and the Hollywood Fringe. It even recalls Ethan Marks’s Electrical Box Theatre, a veritable electrical box lined with red velvet in downtown Los Angeles, to argue that Gravino has taken to the extreme the question Los Angeles has been asking itself for decades: How small can a stage become before it ceases to be a stage? And it recognizes the San Severo urban model: almost zero cost, two weeks of work and six chairs, in return for immediate provincial, regional and national media coverage, recognition by the San Severo’s Municipal Administration, and a format exportable anywhere. Then, the third American piece came from “Hollywood Beat Magazine” on 20 April 2026: Six seats. Fifteen minutes. One actor. No stage. The magazine recounts the kiosk in Via Tondi left disused for almost six years, the contemporary six-seat cultural outpost, placing Francesco Gravino in a distinguished genealogy: Richard Schechner and environmental theatre, Jerzy Grotowski and poor theatre, Nicolas Bourriaud and relational aesthetics. But it closes with pragmatism: it is not a thesis, it is fixing a street corner, that is, repairing an urban street corner by asking not how large a theatre can become, but how small it must become again to recover its original power. And finally, the celebrated London-based “The Psychologist”, the journal of the “British Psychological Society (BPS)”, the oldest psychological society in the world, transformed the Teatro-Edicola into a scientific case study: on 30 July 2026 it published “The world’s smallest theatre — and Psychologists’ next act”, starting from the same detail, the morning of 27 March when the metal shutter of the hexagonal kiosk in Via Tondi reopened after six years, six people inside, an actor at less than a metre’s distance beginning Chekhov. It describes the formula: six spectators, 15 minutes, 11 actors over 10 hours, from Goldoni to Euripides, inside a kiosk where the fourth wall does not break because architecturally it never existed. But the BPS goes a step further: it cites the 2025 studies by Damien Gabriel in IBRO Neuroscience Reports, that live performance generates measurably stronger emotional and physiological activation than video, and introduces Edward Hall’s proxemics: below one metre is intimate space, reserved for doctors, close friends, lovers. In that one-square-metre space, the actor’s breath is audible, micro-expressions legible, the self-other boundary becomes permeable. The Teatro-Edicola “does not make theatre better, it makes it inevitable”. And it is here that one understands why Stanford is studying it as an academic case study in social innovation, not as a case of artistic originality. In Italy, meanwhile, the national media circuit had already picked up the phenomenon: RaiNews — TG2 Storie brought it to RaiDue at midnight on 19 April. RTL 102.5 devoted space to the format conceived by Gravino and developed by Foyer ’97 in the heart of San Severo in Via Tondi, defining it as a permanent micro-stage capable of bringing theatre into public space. ANSA.it, Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, La Repubblica, TG2000, Radio Capital, Swiss RSI, ANSA Brazil and many others followed. And for the record: Fiorello praised it in La Pennicanza as an artistic case inspired by his Edicola Fiore, and Biagio Antonacci, on his tour in the Augustan amphitheatre of Lucera, made a “fact-finding” stop at the Teatro-Edicola singing the celebrated and nostalgic Iris in front of an audience certainly larger than the “six seats”. Francesco Gravino’s theatre company Foyer ’97 was not born yesterday: behind it lie the Teatro-Cantina of 2016, the underground theatre, and in 2011 a performance on the bell tower of a church in the centre of San Severo at 45 metres high. The Teatro-Edicola completes, in Gravino’s words, “the entire vertical extension of theatre: underground, street level, rooftop”. And it is preparing for its thirtieth anniversary in 2027 aiming to purchase the kiosk to make it permanent, exporting the “San Severo Model” to Rome, Lucca, and to the festivals of Santarcangelo and Todi. As with the GIO Festival, someone might dare to claim that it is merely a stunt, but when BroadwayWorld places you alongside the Los Angeles Opera House, the “Los Angeles Journa”l proposes you as a model for Hollywood, “Hollywood Beat Magazine” reads you through Grotowski and the “British Psychological Society” uses you to explain mirror neurones, it is no longer a stunt but an excellent artistic and academic positioning. To those who still whisper that Foggia and Capitanata are provincial, the answer is now written on two opposite and complementary fronts: on 5 June in Foggia a 138-year-old opera found the stage again at the Giordano ending up on BroadwayWorld; on 27 March in San Severo a 4-square-metre kiosk invented a stage that did not exist, ending up at Stanford, in Los Angeles, in Hollywood and in London. The periphery, when it has a precise idea, becomes the centre. Even with six chairs. Luciano Magaldi Sardella

Paul Seixas, at only 20 years old, won his first Monument solo at the Tour of Lombardy, thus boosting his career and attracting the attention of managers and sponsors, including Decathlon CMA CGM, who are trying to convince him to stay with their team beyond 2027. #Cyclisme #PaulSeixas #TourDeLombardie (translated)

The author said they had heard for a year that every AI needed a memory system but had paid little attention. They wrote that Ash Hart had now introduced what they described as dynamic memory, called “Living Weigths,” inside an LLM’s brain, rather than text search, databases or indexing.

Little Think Tank wrote that it had never stopped and that other French-speaking accounts dedicated to current events had simply stopped talking about it. It claimed that nearly 1,500 Palestinians had been killed since the announcement of a ceasefire in October 2025, and that there was therefore no intention to divert attention. #Palestine #Actualité #Justice (translated)

Masian accused Real Madrid, from its president to its players and coach, of constantly fostering a climate of tension around refereeing. He claimed that decisions that were once tolerated in favor of the club were no longer accepted and criticized Real Madrid TV for allegedly harassing and pressuring every referee assigned to officiate a Real match for years. Regarding a decision involving Vini, Masian believed that the regulations would not have been applied in the same way five years earlier, as referees would have been afraid. He added that referees now risk being targeted by Real Madrid TV, the club, and its president, whether they do their job well or not. According to him, Real had an interest in ensuring that this climate diverted attention from the real issues and problems. #RealMadrid #arbitrage #football (translated)