1. Indonesia will impose interim child protection guidelines on social media companies while the government carves out a law to set a minimum age for users of the platforms.

2. Advisers to Trump now concede that the Ukraine war will take months or even longer to resolve, a sharp reality check on his biggest foreign policy promise - to strike a peace deal on his first day in the White House.

3. The influx of more than 700,000 new users on RedNote has been driven by a looming U.S. ban on TikTok, used by 170 million Americans, on national security concerns.

4. Italy, Albania and the UAE signed a deal worth at least $1 billion to build a subsea interconnection to import renewable energy across the Adriatic Sea.

5. Pakistan will cut the power tariff for operators of electric vehicle charging stations by 45% as part of the ongoing reform of the energy sector designed to boost demand.