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But the AfD’s leader, Alice Weidel, intends to become Germany’s chancellor in the election after that, which is due 2029. In ...

If “none of the above” were an option in Germany’s election on February 23rd, it might win. Only 40% of Germans say Friedrich ...

Part of the problem is that smartphones contain multitudes. Using a smartphone to solve crosswords or read the news may well ...

As well as too little privacy, characters in “The White Lotus”, like people in lockdown, have too much time on their hands, too much of which they use thinking about the past. Old sins and grudges ...

He would return to Israel every so often to see friends and family. According to people who know him, Maman was evasive when ...

But cheap solar power is now breaking the model. Last year Pakistan became the world’s third-biggest importer of Chinese ...

As large language models first gained popularity in the early 2020s, economists and bosses were hopeful that they, and other ...

Yet for all America’s expertise and innovation, not to mention its vast defence budget, its own armed forces are struggling ...

They gathered force in January after Tibor Gaspar, an MP from Mr Fico’s Smer party, blunderingly told an interviewer that ...

China and America are also waging a bitter battle of ideas. China defends authoritarianism, whereas America, at least until ...

If you listen to American politicians you might think that every migrant in Latin America is heading for the United States.