Putin orders mobilisation, Italy's elections, Iranian protests, Lebanon closes banks
Polls ahead of Sunday's general election are predicting the hard-right trio of Georgia Meloni, Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi are favourites to form the country's 70th coalition government since World War II and the first with a far-right prime minister since the war. Meloni has been squarely on the side of Ukraine in the war with Russia, but her post-fascist Brothers of Italy party also has a proven track record of bashing Brussels.


