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Italy approved the deployment of 500 troops to Milan on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, in response to violent clashes linked to fuel price protests that have disrupted pasta production and food deliveries in southern Italy. The cabinet also approved security measures including making detention of minors easier and introducing a new crime of "violent participation in a demonstration," marking a hardening of the government's response to the unrest alongside the French and German crackdowns on similar protests.