Metamorphoses. By Karolina Watroba. Franz Kafka’s fame is not only the product of literary excellence. He also got lucky, as ...

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The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Donald Trump’s victory and the fallout from the US election in 2024.

DONALD TRUMP’S victory on November 5th was decisive. The reaction of America’s stockmarket was jubilant. On November 6th the S&P 500, an index of America’s biggest firms, leapt by 2.5% in anticipation ...

F OR MANY living on Kazakhstan’s coast, it was obvious long ago. The Caspian Sea is drying up. The world’s largest inland ...

China is famous, even infamous, for hard graft. Prodigious amounts of toil and elbow grease helped the country become the ...

Most outside powers, including the un, reckon the saf has more legitimacy in the eyes of most Sudanese. Yet the army’s dogged ...