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As of late August, 15-year mortgage rates are hovering around 5.69% and 30-year mortgage rates around 6.58%, according to Freddie Mac. Just 10 weeks ago, 15-year loans topped 6% and 30-year loans neared 7%. Read More: Barbara Corcoran: This Is the ‘Real Problem’ With the Housing Market Right Now Find Out: 7 Tax Loopholes the…
Published on: Aug 31, 2025 03:04 pm IST Ex-intelligence officer Scott Ritter said that by sacrifice, he literally means sacrifice, adding that ‘they are destroying the genetic pool of Ukraine’. A former US intelligence officer reportedly said that the European countries are ready to ‘sacrifice’ Ukraine to prevent improved relations between Moscow and Washington. The…
By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s roll-out of fuel blended with 20% ethanol will hurt a vehicle’s mileage by 2%-4% but is safe to use, a lobby group representing the country’s automakers said, aiming to assuage motorists’ concerns in the world’s third-largest car market. India set a 2025 target years ago for 20% ethanol…
PM Narendra Modi is in China for the 25th SCO summit, where he will hold meetings with China President Xi Jinping and Russia President Vladimir Putin for the next two days. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will also be a part of the SCO Summit. The summit comes hot on the heels of Trump’s tariffs…
This artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer is riding gale-force secular tailwinds that will take it to the next level. The popular narrative over the past few months is that demand for artificial intelligence (AI) is slowing, but the truth is much more nuanced. Faced with tough comps, some of the biggest players and early beneficiaries are…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Three Scottish brothers have made history by completing the fastest unsupported non-stop row across the Pacific Ocean – the world’s largest ocean – with 139 days at sea. Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan Maclean rowed 9,000 miles from Peru to Australia, also becoming the first team on record to successfully row across…
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino priest, who publicly protested against then-President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody crackdown against illegal drugs despite death threats and helped provide proper funerals to slain suspects, is among the winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards — Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize. The other winners announced on Sunday were a…
(Reuters) -A Russian drone attack overnight damaged a power facility near the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, leaving more than 29,000 customers without electricity on Sunday morning, the region’s governor said. Hardest hit was the city of Chornomorsk, just outside Odesa, where the attack also damaged residential houses and administrative buildings, said Oleh Kiper, the…
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin on Sunday to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit hosted by counterpart Xi Jinping with around 20 other world leaders, Chinese state television reported. Source link
Israel identified the body of hostage Idan Shtivi, recovered from the Gaza Strip in a military operation this week that retrieved the remains of two hostages, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Saturday. Netanyahu’s office had announced on Friday the retrieval of Ilan Weiss’s body along with the remains of another hostage, whose identity…