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Italy's inflation reaches 5.4% amid strikes and port stoppages

The English-language bulletin also reports four Italian military deaths in Bosnia and a court decision shutting part of Taranto's steelworks.

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Italian News in English - 30/10/2026

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0:08USB's nationwide strike links living-cost demands with protests over international conflicts.
3:00Preliminary Istat figures put October annual inflation at 5.4%, with energy prices driving the increase.
3:32Port workers protest weapons transport; Marika Dell'Acqua reports from a gate in Genoa.
4:54The report says a military helicopter crash in Bosnia killed four Italian service members and injured eleven others.
7:03The bulletin reports a Supreme Court ruling closing the former Ilva plant's hot-working section over environmental concerns.
8:24Closing sports updates cover Serie A results and Cobolli's injury retirement against Berrettini in Vienna.

Rising energy costs are putting fresh pressure on Italian households as workers and students take to the streets. Preliminary October inflation figures show annual price growth accelerating to 5.4%, up from 4.2% in September, according to the bulletin from RaiNews, the news service of Italy's public broadcaster RAI.

Its "Italian News in English - 30/10/2026" connects the figures from Istat, Italy's national statistics institute, with a nationwide general strike called by the Unione Sindacale di Base, or USB. The report describes demonstrations over purchasing power and international conflicts, with protesters linking demands for higher wages to opposition to weapons shipments.

Footage shows marches and confrontations with riot police as the bulletin covers demonstrations in Milan, Naples and Bologna. It reports port shutdowns against the transport of weapons, with Marika Dell'Acqua reporting from the Albertazzi gate in Genoa. The broadcaster links the pressure on fuel, food and utility bills to the war involving Israel, the United States and Iran.

The bulletin then turns to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where it reports that an Italian military CH-47 helicopter serving with the European Union's EUFOR Althea force crashed near Brčko. Four Italian service members were killed and eleven other people injured, according to the report. The cause had not been determined. Defense Minister Guido Crosetto traveled to Bosnia, while President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni paid tribute to those who died.

In Taranto, southern Italy, the report says the Supreme Court of Cassation rejected appeals against shutting the hot-working section of the former Ilva steel plant over environmental concerns. Its account presents the ruling as a rejection of any trade-off between jobs and health: employment must be protected through safe working conditions.

A brief sports roundup closes the broadcast. Frosinone's win over Lecce and Fiorentina's draw with Atalanta feature in the Serie A coverage. In tennis, the bulletin reports that Flavio Cobolli retired with a leg injury during his Vienna match against Matteo Berrettini.