Italy deploys paratroopers to Milan after violent protests turn deadly

Italy is deploying 500 paratroopers to Milan through year-end after anti-government protests over high prices turned violent, with strikes spreading nationwide. The Folgore Airborne Brigade will arrive within days. Truckers in Naples have blockaded supermarket logistics hubs for a week over fuel costs, which are 30% higher than before the Middle East crisis. Empty shelves, halted mozzarella production, and fuel shortages have resulted. Milan's La Scala opera staff have also struck since October 12. The "October 17 Movement" group vows weekly Saturday protests until the government falls. Separately, about 5,000 students in Athens, Greece, protested living costs, while doctors and civil servants there staged strikes.