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Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/IMF PhotoOpinion by Chie Aoyagi, Maurizio Leonardi, Athene Laws, Hamza Mighri (washington dc)Friday, June 26, 2026Inter Press ServiceChie Aoyagi, Maurizio Leonardi, and Athene Laws are economists in the IMF’s African Department, where Hamza Mighri is a research analyst WASHINGTON DC, June 26 (IPS) – For decades, official development assistance has been a central pillar of financing in sub-Saharan Africa. That pillar is now weakening—quickly and broadly. In 2025, bilateral aid to the region fell sharply, with early estimates pointing to cuts of about 26 percent in a single year. Multilateral support is also under pressure, with major institutions projecting…

Many Reddit users share weight loss milestones, progress photos, and personal stories about their success with GLP-1 medications. While some posts highlight dramatic changes, others emphasize slow, steady progress. Together, these discussions often leave people wondering what realistic weight loss results look like and whether their own experience is typical.KM: Realistic weight loss is different from person to person. Losing around one to two pounds each week is ideal, but sometimes you’ll see more and sometimes, none at all. The main goal is to make healthy, sustainable changes that will help maintain weight loss.SS: Balancing personal expectations with healthy goals…

Climate change is squeezing the grid from all sides, affecting both supply and demand. Heat can affect power availability, from generation to transmission infrastructure, as I covered in my latest story. But climate change is also helping push electricity use higher—and countries in Europe and around the world will need to adapt.  In the US, nearly 90% of homes have air-conditioning. That means many grids see their highest demand in the summer months, and the risk of brownouts and blackouts is at its worst.  People are often quick to cast air-conditioning as a villain, and it’s true that the technology…

A federal judge in Washington on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to release information redacted or withheld from the public Epstein files, including names of people prosecutors once identified as “co-conspirators” and more details about an FBI interview with a woman who claimed President Trump assaulted her. Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Clinton appointee, ruled in favor of Katie Phang, a journalist who had argued the administration had skirted the Epstein Files Transparency Act by failing to release that information. Judge Sullivan also ordered acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to produce Epstein files that were in foreign languages, and to release…

Chris Cuomo savaged White House insider Stephen Miller as an “ugly, twisted, diseased version of a young man” after the Republican threw a fit over New York primary election results on Wednesday.A slate of progressive candidates backed by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani dominated at Tuesday’s polls, unseating two incumbent members of Congress and defeating a third candidate endorsed by an outgoing Democrat.Afterwards, Miller took to X to accuse Democrats of having “imported a new electorate” to tip the scales left in the latest election.“Change the voters, change the country,” wrote the White House deputy chief of staff, who is said…

Speaker Mike Johnson said on Thursday that he would send to President Trump a bipartisan housing bill cleared by Congress, despite the president’s decision a day earlier to scrap a much-anticipated signing ceremony for the measure.Mr. Trump has yet to commit to signing the legislation, which he has diminished as being “of minor importance” even as members of his own party have celebrated it as a crucial victory that can lower housing costs.Mr. Johnson’s announcement came after he had a lengthy meeting with Mr. Trump at the White House.Sending the president a bill that has passed both chambers of Congress…

Good morning and welcome to FirstFT. In today’s newsletter:Companies in the UK rush to fire high earnersWhat are Andy Burnham’s foreign policy priorities?Giorgia Meloni redesigns Italy’s election rules to stay in powerHow DeepMind brought the AI boom to LondonYou can listen to today’s top news stories in the FT News Briefing podcast.We begin in the UK, where high-earning employees are in the crosshairs for job cuts before the country ends a cap on unfair dismissal payouts.What to know: Finance and tech groups are rushing to fire underperforming executives, cut headcount and toughen probation processes for new hires ahead of the…

When agricultural crops are lost to flooding, food costs rise, food systems are weakened, and our ability to meet our food security needs is threatened. Credit: ShutterstockOpinion by Esther Ngumbi, Christy Gibson (urbana, illinois, us)Thursday, June 25, 2026Inter Press Service URBANA, Illinois, US, June 25 (IPS) – Across the United States, record breaking extreme weather events have already occurred, including severe storms and Tornadoes in the State of Illinois to flooding in Texas, southern Wisconsin and the South. Throughout the summer, and the remainder of the growing season, additional severe weather events will come through including several hurricanes and tropical storms…

There are a number of prescription medications available to manage COPD. When you start a new medication, make sure you understand how and when to take it. Up to 58.7 percent of people with COPD who use inhaled medications take them incorrectly, according to research, which increases risk of hospitalization and death.[3]Medication costs prevent up to 19 percent of adults from being able to take their COPD medication reliably, which can worsen symptoms and hasten the decline of lung function.[3] Programs are available if you need help paying for COPD medications. Prescription assistance programs offer discount cards, financial aid is…

A human brain starts as a single cell. Over time, that lone cell gives rise to an extraordinarily complex organ containing roughly 170 billion cells. One of the biggest questions in developmental neuroscience is how all of those cells end up in the right places to form a functioning brain. Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory now believe the answer may be surprisingly simple. Their new work offers insights into how the brain organizes itself during development and could eventually influence research in fields ranging from biology to artificial intelligence. How Brain Cells Determine Their Identity Stan Kerstjens, a postdoctoral…