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7% mortgage rates are already here, some buyers and mortgage experts say

Mortgage rates ticked up to a new high for the year, delivering more bad news for home buyers.

Germany’s far-right AfD eyes historic first in state election

Germany’s far-right AfD is projected to take power in one of the country’s 16 states for the first time.

Javelin | An icon of modern warfare

The anti-tank system India is planning to acquire is a mainstay brigade combat team weapon for the U.S. Army and Marine ...

Witkoff: Putin’s Messenger?

What did Steve Witkoff know about Russia when he was first sent to see President Putin in February last year?

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation | The house of multilaterals

At the Bishkek Summit, member countries, including India, have condemned the military strikes on Iran, reaffirmed ‘suppo...

9/5/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. A Message to China from Japan’s ...

CDF Munir reaffirms Balochistan’s peace, prosperity central to state efforts: ISPR

Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir on Saturday visited Quetta Garrison, where he r...

Bangladesh Opposition launches protest march over energy crisis

"This movement is aimed at ensuring cooking gas and lighting up every household with electricity," Opposition leader Sha...

Rescuers recover 11 Palestinian bodies from rubble as Israeli attacks kill five in Gaza

Rescuers recover 11 Palestinian bodies from rubble as Israeli attacks kill five in Gaza Israeli attacks have killed five...

Putin expresses gratitude, best wishes to Trump

Russian President at a meeting with American negotiators in the Kremlin asked them to convey his gratitude and best wish...

Putin notes at meeting with US negotiators that situation is difficult to discuss

Fresh Yemen clashes kill more than 60: military, medical sources

According to three Yemeni military sources, 26 government troops were killed during several hours of fighting in the cou...

Putin meets with Witkoff, Kushner in the Kremlin

This is Putin's eighth face-to-face meeting with Witkoff, while Kushner is participating in discussions on the Ukrainian...

Rosneft to supply 30 million tons of oil from Vostok Oil in 2027

Vostok Oil, Rosneft’s flagship project in the Taimyr Peninsula, is being developed on instructions from President Vladim...

Witkoff, Kushner arrive in Kremlin, where they may meet with Putin

Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov previously told that Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet with Witkoff and K...

Shootout in Kiev between special services testifies to Ukraine's looming collapse — expert

This is not the first such incident involving a conflict and shootout, military expert Vitaly Kiselev said

Merz acknowledges Germany’s loss of industrial jobs

A study by credit insurer Allianz Trade found that more than 30 German companies with annual revenues of at least €50 mi...

This Cattle Feedlot Turns Manure Into 1.2 Million MMBtu of Natural Gas a Year

A new project is seeking to turn cattle manure into a source of sustainable natural gas for energy production and shippi...

Pentagon chief threatens more strikes on Iranian oil tankers

Pentagon chief threatens more strikes on Iranian oil tankers US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says the military can att...

Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentials

JetBrains is urging Cadence users to revoke and rotate all credentials following a security incident last month in which...

US ambassador calls violent Israeli settlers ‘terrorists’ after weeks of West Bank unrest

The United States ambassador to Israel condemned Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank again on Saturday, c...

Braw in The Sun on Germany is increasingly a target for Russian sabotage

On September 5, Elisabeth Braw was interviewed by The Sun to discuss how Germany is increasingly the target of Russian s...

‘I wasn’t even listening,’ Farage says of donations scandal meeting

Reform UK leader maintains innocence in overseas funding controversy on last day of party conferenceUK politics liveNige...

UN approves resolution in support of map that shows Africa's true size

The United Nations on ‌Friday voted for a shift away from the 16th-century Mercator global map towards one more accurate...

Gaza teams recover remains of 55 people nearly 3 years after Israeli strike

The victims, all from one Palestinian family, had been sheltering at their family home when Israel hit it.

War in Ukraine: Putin, Zelensky order pause in strikes

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday ordered a 72-hour pause in strikes on Kyiv as US envoys Steve Witkoff and J...

US envoys Witkoff, Kushner arrive in Moscow for talks on peace in Ukraine

US special representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner landed in Moscow on Saturday for talks on how to end the ‌war...

Vannacci, Italy’s Rising Right-Wing Star, Has Yet to Meet Meloni

Italy’s Roberto Vannacci, the insurgent ultranationalist, has yet to meet Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni or have contact ...

How to invest in a booming stock market that’s way cheaper than the S&P 500

Poland’s reclassification as a developed economy from an emerging market opens it up for investment by many more investo...

White House weighs replacing Pentagon number two as post-Iran war turmoil deepens

White House weighs replacing Pentagon number two as post-Iran war turmoil deepens The White House is considering possibl...

China to proceed with Brahmaputra mega dam despite new concerns

Dubbed the ‘project of the century’ by Beijing, it has been included in China’s 15th Five-Year Plan for renewable energy...

Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Code

Broadcom has released security updates for two security flaws impacting VMware Workstation and Fusion, including one cri...

Israel claims control of Lebanon’s key Ali al-Taher ridge: What that means

Israeli Defence Ministry asserts operational control over strategic highland; Hezbollah yet to comment.

'Culture of fear within US Defence Department: Slow leakage of dissent against the administration'

Catherine Viette is pleased to welcome Dafydd Townley, Senior Teaching Fellow in International Security at the Universit...

Dry cargo ship carrying military equipment hit in port of Chernomorsk

A dry cargo ship carrying military equipment to the Ukrainian forces by Western countries was hit in the port of Chernom...

Russia-Ukraine peace talks could begin next year, ex-MI6 chief says

John Sawers tells FT Weekend Festival that enduring peace ‘not really conceivable’ while Vladimir Putin remains in offic...

US says it hit three Iranian oil tankers after attacks on warships

US Central Command says its forces struck three Iranian crude oil carriers on Saturday.

Gaza’s destroyed sewage system linked to ‘rare’ algae bloom shutting Israeli desalination plants

Gaza’s destroyed sewage system linked to ‘rare’ algae bloom shutting Israeli desalination plants Untreated sewage from G...

U.S. attacks 3 Iranian oil tankers after missiles target Navy warships

Three Iranian crude oil carriers were hit by U.S. forces on Saturday near Iran's key oil export hub, Kharg Island, in th...

US military says it struck three Iranian tankers after American warships came under missile attack

Officials said US aircraft carrier and destroyer avoided attacks before three Iranian tankers were struck by the USThe U...