According to the Financial Times, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has asked Alibaba, ByteDance and Zhipu whether and how they can restrict the transfer of training data abroad and prevent foreign users from downloading model weights. A wall protecting its secrets

Parliament has given final approval to the bill introducing a digital majority, a reform championed by President Emmanuel Macron to combat the ‘Wild West’ of social media

The group’s new leader, Khalil al Hayya, states that in Gaza there is no business, only war

Super Hisen, the Shenzhen-based supplier that has been manufacturing for Giochi Preziosi for thirty years, has taken control of the company with 80 million as part of a composition with creditors. Between 800 and 900 jobs in the supply chain have been saved, but the company’s own retail outlets remain unaffected. And the Ministry for Made in Italy, in announcing the deal, has carefully avoided mentioning China

On the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, the de facto president explains that preventing the opposition from returning to power is necessary to protect the country from “coup plotters”

The former head of the political bureau of the terrorist organisation has taken over from Yahya Sinwar, who was killed in October 2024. It was he who led the indirect negotiations with Israel that led to the ceasefire agreement and the release of the hostages, also meeting the American envoys Witkoff and Kushner in person

Using rather undiplomatic methods, the Foreign Secretary has made a forceful entry into the Spanish debate: he has branded the regularisation of migrants as "demagogic" and the Catalan amnesty as "unfair" 

In Hong Kong’s independent bookshops, agents are on the lookout for ‘subversive’ works, whilst in the capital, the Lu Xun Prizes honour literature approved by the system

What message is the Islamic Republic sending to the Americans by striking Jordan but, for the time being, not Israel?

The ‘cockroaches’ against the Modi government and the patronage system. Lessons