Author: France 24

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has ordered staff to stop using Anthropic’s Claude Code, after it was found to be flagging users connecting from China. But Anthropic is already trying its best to stop Chinese firms from using Claude at all, and accuses Alibaba of running large “distillation” campaigns against it, saying it deployed around 25,000 fake accounts to train its own models on Claude.

Pop icon Madonna released the fifteenth album of her decades-long career on Friday, “Confessions II”, ahead of a performance to promote her new tracks at the half-time show of the Football World Cup final on July 19.

Three sons of former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei on Sunday made a rare public appearance at his funeral but there was still no sign of their brother and his successor Mojtaba Khamenei. Crowds of thousands for the second day in a row filled the Grand Mosalla religious complex in Tehran for the funeral ceremonies of Khamenei and four family members killed on February 28 in Israeli air strikes based on US intelligence.

One month after Congolese authorities officially declared a new Ebola outbreak, the virus is still spreading in the east of the country and the death toll continues to rise. There are now more than 1,000 confirmed cases and more than 250 confirmed deaths. FRANCE 24’s Aurélie Bazzara-Kibangula reports from eastern DR Congo, with Paula Séville.

🇫🇷⚽️ Les Bleus secured their place in the World Cup 2026 quarter-finals after a very tense match against #Paraguay 🇵🇾, marked by numerous fouls that went unpunished. Despite the intensity, the #French players reacted with composure after the final whistle, focusing on qualification rather than the controversy.

US President Donald Trump made over a billion dollars with various crypto-related ventures in 2025, according to his annual financial disclosure report. The earnings, coming from royalties tied to the Trump memecoin and token sales from crypto firm World Liberty Financial, have prompted accusations of conflicts of interest from watchdog groups. Also in this edition: the US commerce department lifts its export ban on Anthropic’s latest AI models.

As rising populism threatens freedom of expression, designers can no longer look away. Yohji Yamamoto rages, with clothes scorched by the sun. Issey Miyake celebrates the power of shadow. Jeanne Friot indicts the politicians. The Institut Français de la Mode urges its students to push beyond limits. KML, the Saudi-born label, dismantles Western dress codes. All of them are asking the same question: what does fashion propose for a livable future?

Hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered in Tehran on Saturday for the start of a dayslong funeral for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Tara Kangarlou, a global affairs journalist and author of The Heartbeat of Iran, said most attendees were “more emboldened, hardline factions of the society,” making the crowd unrepresentative of broader public attitudes toward the regime.

The Danish Refugee Council has warned that the latest Ebola outbreak in DR Congo is complicating an already strained humanitarian situation. In a recent report, the NGO stressed the response to the health emergency “must not hollow out the aid programming that is holding communities together”. Speaking to FRANCE 24, Secretary-General Charlotte Slente lamented a “funding crisis” that had already begun before the Ebola outbreak, adding that with the arrival of the virus, “there’s a risk these resources are now turned into a response to Ebola”.

Colombia booked their place in the last 16 with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Ghana in Kansas City. Jhon Arias’ early goal proved decisive as the Cafeteros dominated proceedings but failed to add to their advantage, ultimately holding on through Ghana’s second-half pressure. Colombia will take on Switzerland on Tuesday.