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• European leaders are currently divided over strategies to reduce Big Tech's dominance, specifically regarding mobile satellite spectrum access and cloud tender restrictions for multinationals. • The debate centers on the EU's Cloud and AI Development Act, which aims to protect sensitive data from bad actors and close the digital services gap with the U.S. and China. • These internal disagreements have caused repeated delays in the legislative process, reflecting a tension between protecting sovereignty and maintaining global competitiveness.

• Susie Wiles, Trump’s Chief of Staff, secured her job back amid reported internal White House power struggles and loyalty tests. • The reinstatement follows weeks of uncertainty, highlighting tensions within the administration's top ranks. • Move underscores Trump’s fixation on loyalty, potentially stabilizing operations but risking further factional divides ahead of midterms.

The 32.3m surpasses those caused by disasters for the first time, as 82.2m people displaced in total around worldThe number of internal displacements triggered by conflict or violence around the world reached a record high in 2025, surpassing the number of disaster-driven internal displacements for the first time.A report published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) shows that by the end of 2025 there were 32.3m conflict-driven internal displacements. That is 60% higher than those recorded the previous year, and – for the first time since data collection began in 2008 – above displacements driven by natural disasters, which reached 29.9m in 2025. Continue reading...