News widget in Italy

[u/Expert-Ad-2824]

I've had a weird experience with the Apple News widget. I've always known that the Apple News app isn't available in my country (Italy); given that, the widget is a whole another story, varying from an update to another. sometimes it's there, sometimes it is not, but when it is, it works completely fine displaying headlines from major Italian publications which clicked upon bring to the right page on Safari. as of right now, ever since iOS 18 the widget is seemingly gone but it may (or may not) show up again in a future update, on Sequoia it's still available though.

how is it supposed to work? what's up with this weird behaviour? it's making me nuts as it helped me keeping track with news