This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. With the war in Ukraine dominating Russia’s economy, a once-lively mortgage market has largely ground to a halt, paralyzed by soaring interest rates and a sharp curtailment of state subsidies for first-time buyers. The result: For many Russians, the dream of homeownership…
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Anyone desperate to leave China as part of an ongoing exodus known as the “run” movement may need to find alternate destinations, as the repatriation of Chinese migrants from the United States looks increasingly likely. China on Monday pledged to accept the…
US President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to fire “dozens” of FBI agents who probed him and those involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, incident at the U.S. Capitol. Trump administration officials are especially looking at whether anyone tied in any way to former special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 and classified documents investigations of President…
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. China’s homegrown open-source artificial intelligence model DeepSeek topped app charts in the United States and Europe on Monday, beating out U.S.-based rival ChatGPT for the most popular free app on Apple’s App Store, in what some commentators saw as a potential…
A Nigerian man, Usman Abdulmalik, has married two wives, Hasiya Ahmad and Maryam Mahmud on the same day. The wedding fatiha was held on January 27, 2025 in Bida, Niger State. Meanwhile, similar incident happened in Cross River State on January 31, 2025.
