10 aprile: Meloni avanti fino alla fine; Neonato lasciato tra i rifiuti; Perché l'Italia del calcio è in crisi nera;

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52 hours after the most devastating bombing of Beirut, the Strait of Hormuz is closed to 15 ships per day, oil is near $100 a barrel, and 1,700 people are dead.

1. Prima Pagina, the news podcast of Il Messaggero, covers the major Italian and international stories of Friday April 10. 2. The broadcast is presented by Italo Carmignani, with expert contributions from Lorenzo Vita on the Middle East, Angelo Paura from New York, and Massimo Boccucci on Italian football. 3. The episode opens with a geopolitical crisis: 52 hours after the most devastating bombing of Beirut, the Strait of Hormuz is closed to all but one oil company, with 15 ships per day affected and oil approaching $100 per barrel. 4. Israel is pursuing negotiations with Lebanon at the ambassador level at the State Department, with Netanyahu announcing focus on Hezbollah disarmament; Trump has privately asked Netanyahu to reduce raids to protect the Iran ceasefire. 5. The death toll stands at 1,700, including over 300 in a single day, with one million people displaced; condemnation has come from Paris, Berlin, London, Moscow, and Ankara. 6. The first direct meetings between Iranian parliament speaker Ghalibaf and US Vice President J.D. Vance are taking place in Pakistan, with Ghalibaf warning of strong responses if violations continue. 7. Commentator Maria Aiello analyzes Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's parliamentary addresses in both the Chamber and Senate, concluding the legislature will continue without early elections and that Meloni is offering renewal-in-continuity rather than new policy announcements. 8. From New York, correspondent Angelo Paura reports that Meta has announced a $21 billion partnership with CoreWave to provide AI computing capacity through 2032, with Meta stock rising 2.5% and CoreWave rising 3.5% on the news. 9. Meta's new MuseSpark AI model, released by Meta Super Intelligence Labs under new director Alexander Wang, has received positive outlooks from analysts at JP Morgan, Citi, and Bank of America. 10. According to Axios, OpenAI is planning to generate $2.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2026, rising to $100 billion by 2030, following a model used by Facebook, Google, and Amazon as it prepares for a major IPO. 11. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy published his annual shareholder letter defending aggressive AI investment: "We will not be conservative in the way we face this game." 12. In Rome, police following up a hospital alert found a 15-day-old newborn on a mattress on the ground floor of a building in Via Italo Carlo Falbo, surrounded by 5kg of marijuana and 10 doses of hashish. 13. The parents, a 1970-born Romanian man and a 31-year-old Italian woman from Sora, had left the maternity ward early; the same couple lost a previous child to meningitis a year earlier. 14. The father was arrested under house arrest for drug possession; the mother was referred for investigation; the infant, not in immediate danger, was transferred to Umberto I hospital and then placed in the neonatal department under protective custody. 15. At Cannes 2026 (May 12-23), no Italian films will compete for the Palme d'Or, though Nanni Moretti's new film remains a possible late addition; Barbra Streisand and Peter Jackson will receive the Palme d'Honneur. 16. John Travolta, at 72, will present his directorial debut Propeller One Way Night Coach at Cannes, while Pedro Almodóvar, Steven Soderbergh with a John Lennon documentary, and Asghar Farhadi directing Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Deneuve are confirmed. 17. The festival's general delegate Thierry Fremont stated that Cannes 2026 will defend human creativity over AI-generated content: "The film is not a collection of digital data, but it originates from the vision and feelings of the authors." 18. Umbria Jazz 2026 (July 3-12 in Perugia) has already sold out concerts by Sting on July 3 and Zucchero on July 11, and will use Dario Fo's centenary as a narrative thread, with an official manifesto signed by Fo himself. 19. Football fans who follow Serie A and the Italian national team's struggles will find the Gravina report segment particularly detailed and data-rich. 20. Listeners who prefer English-language news or are not interested in Italian politics and sports will likely skip.

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