Late-night appointments, Miliband’s grim looks, costly social promises: the new Prime Minister’s first day at Downing Street is already revealing the cracks between rearmament and the welfare state, between noble ambitions and figures that simply don’t add up. Labour’s honeymoon lasts but a few hours

The president accuses the country of discriminating against US cars, alcohol and dairy products. But many analysts see this as a move to exert pressure in the negotiations on the USMCA, the trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada

Fitto has been appointed Special Representative for Cyprus, whilst Schübel has been appointed Head of the Russia Division of the European External Action Service. The mandates of Italy’s Soreca in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Germany’s Weber in the Horn of Africa have been renewed. The Paris dossier is a more sensitive issue for Italy

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”