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The president has targeted Ms James after she sued him successfully for fraud at his real-estate business. Last year a judge ordered him to pay a fine of nearly half a billion dollars. The penalty was ...

His prose holds a rich vein of gallows humour; he sees literature as a bulwark against cruelty and chaos. Born in Gyula, his father a lawyer and his mother a civil servant, Mr Krasznahorkai grew up ...

To understand front-line economics, consider trade with Russia, investor uncertainty, defence spending and consumer attitudes. For many of the countries, Russia had been a trade partner and supplier ...

Africa’s “leaders for life” are easy to mock. Mr Biya sometimes runs his country from the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva. Mr Obiang has appointed as vice-president his son, a money-launderer with a ...

Though robotaxis have notched up impressive growth, they look ploddingly pedestrian compared with far zippier pedal-powered rivals. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving taxi firm, proudly proclaims that its ...

L OOK AROUND the world of artificial intelligence and OpenAI is everywhere. In early September ChatGPT’s creator reportedly struck a deal to buy perhaps $10bn-worth of custom AI ...

To understand why, look to the part of the world where strongman rule is most common: Africa. For a time in the 1990s the African “big man” seemed a relic of the cold war. Back then, many African ...

CHINA’S INDUSTRIAL policies have propelled it to the shiny edge of technological development. It boasts world-beating electric-vehicle (EV) production and top-notch robotics, and though it still lags ...

Faced with this carnival, President Emmanuel Macron on October 6th asked Sébastien Lecornu, a close centrist confidant whom he appointed prime minister last month only to see him resign less than four ...

Mr Vought has urged the government to use the shutdown as an opportunity to fire thousands of federal workers and gut federal programmes. “He’s getting ready to cut things,” the president told ...

She is poised to become Japan’s prime minister, the first woman to hold the position. Her rise signals an end to the staidness long characteristic of Japanese politics. “This is the end of a long era, ...