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The former vice president of the Sicilian Region, Giuseppe Armao, is under house arrest on charges of corruption after the judge accepted evidence related to illicit payments received in exchange for favors linked to environmental permits. #Corruzione #Giustizia #Sicilia (translated)

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the construction of the over 76-meter triumphal arch designed by Donald Trump in Washington, to allow the examination of appeals against the project deemed problematic due to its location among symbolic sites of American memory. #Trump #ArcoDiTrionfo #Washington (translated)

Timostene criticized the government's decision to appoint Nuccio Altieri as the president of ANAC and argued that the appointment could be challenged in court. He recalled that, according to ANAC, 95% of public procurement was now conducted through direct assignments and attributed to a reform of the procurement code enacted by Matteo Salvini in 2023 the ability to award contracts up to 150,000 euros without a tender, and, beyond that threshold and up to more than five million, to invite selected companies without a public notice. In the post, Timostene described ANAC as the authority that oversees contracts and claimed that its independence was essential. He noted that the agency had been led by magistrate Raffaele Cantone and legal expert Giuseppe Busia, to whom he attributed criticism of the procurement code, the procedures for the Bridge over the Strait, and the extensions of highway concessions. Timostene referred to Altieri as a former deputy and party leader in the League close to Salvini, who had already been appointed to the presidency of Invimit and on the board of Leonardo. He stated that the law prohibited appointing someone who had held party positions in the three preceding years to lead ANAC, and that Altieri had only recently been responsible for Defense within the League. He then accused Salvini of weakening both procurement rules and the body responsible for enforcing them. The appointment, he clarified, was not yet definitive: it had to go through parliamentary committees, where two-thirds of the votes were needed, and then to the signature of the President of the Republic. Timostene wrote that there was still time to stop it. #ANAC #Corruzione #Appalti_pubblici (translated)

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has officially accepted the results of the elections, emphasizing the importance of respecting democratic rules and warning against attempts to discredit them, while Judge Solberg expressed concern over the potential danger posed by such attacks. #ElezioniIsraele #Democrazia #IsaacHerzog (translated)

The Pavia prosecutor's office has requested that Andrea Sempio be put on trial for the murder of Chiara Poggi, which occurred in 2007, and the decision will be made by a judge in a preliminary hearing that could take place in 2027. #Garlasco #DelittoDiGarlasco #AndreaSempio (translated)

The Public Prosecutor's Office of Pavia has requested the referral to trial of Andrea Sempio, the only person under investigation in the murder of Chiara Poggi, while the judge will have to decide whether to accept or reject this request, which could also affect the ongoing trial against Alberto Stasi. #Giustizia #Omicidio #Sempio (translated)

In the context of the midterm elections in Alaska, the Democrats are involved in a scandal concerning a suspected "fake" candidate, Dan J. Sullivan, who could be used to siphon votes away from the incumbent Republican senator Dan S. Sullivan, with a federal investigation already underway as a judge rejected the request to block the certification of the results. #Alaska #Elezioni #Scandalo (translated)

The Midterm elections in the United States are approaching with over 40 million Americans already voted, while a federal judge blocks the pressures from the Trump administration on electoral officials and Pope Leo votes by mail, calling his gesture a democratic duty-right. #ElezioniUSA #Midterm2026 #VotoAnticipato (translated)