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President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on multilateral institutions to develop meaningful reforms that will address the challenges facing the global economy. “While the global economy has shown some resilience, we must acknowledge pressing issues of low growth, high debt, tightened financing conditions and constrained fiscal space. To respond to these issues, we need meaningful reforms of international financial architecture,” the President said on Thursday. This as he proposed an increase in grant and concessional financing, enhanced multilateral coordination on debt, drawing in the private sector and ensuring equal participation in decision-making on the international economic order. He was addressing the…

David SchoenfieldSep 27, 2025, 07:00 AM ETCloseCovers MLB for ESPN.com Former deputy editor of Page 2 Been with ESPN.com since 1995We made it to the final weekend of the 2025 MLB regular season.It has been one wild, fun ride, especially if you’re a fan of the Milwaukee Brewers or Seattle Mariners or Cleveland Guardians — less so, especially recently, if you’re a fan of the Detroit Tigers or New York Mets.What’s at stake this weekend? From teams playing out the string to those who are battling for a chance to play October baseball, here are the biggest storylines to follow…

From tech giants to startups, South Korean players are developing large language models tailored to their own language and culture, ready to compete with global heavyweights like OpenAI and Google.  Last month, the nation launched its most ambitious sovereign AI initiative to date, pledging ₩530 billion, (about $390 million), to five local companies building large-scale foundational models.   The move underscores Seoul’s desire to cut reliance on foreign AI technologies, hoping to strengthen national security and keep a tighter control over data in the AI era.   The organizations picked by the Ministry of Science and ICT to compete were LG AI…

Unflappable. Fair. A mentor. The trailblazing journalist Belva Davis carried all of these traits, according to friends and colleagues, as they remembered the first Black woman hired as a television reporter on the west coast in the days following her death.Davis entered television news in the 1960s, when the industry was dominated by white men, making her presence on screens especially pioneering. She died on Wednesday at the age of 92.Davis, the oldest of four siblings, was born in Monroe, Louisiana, in the middle of the Great Depression and the Jim Crow era. Her mother was only 14 when she…

For RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Utica Queen, Project Runway was always in the cards.  Fans of the RuPaul-hosted reality series know the talent Utica, aka Ethan Mundt, possesses with a sewing machine. His sleeping bag gown created during season 13’s Bag Ball shook the show’s audience in 2021, and is remembered as one of the best design looks created on the set of RuPaul’s Drag Race.  It was only a matter of time before Mundt would hop over the pond, so to speak, and appear on the design competition show. “Project Runway has been on my radar for a while,”…

Earlier this week, 10 countries recognised Palestinian statehood. With them, the number of UN member states recognising Palestine as a state have reached 157 out of 193. This means the vast majority of the world accepts the Palestinians have a state. And yet they continue to be treated as if they do not, with many experiencing the soul-crushing reality of statelessness at borders and in immigration detention.As a freelance English-Arabic interpreter with Respond Crisis Translation, I frequently support asylum seekers in detention. I have seen firsthand what it is to be a Palestinian stuck in the increasingly inhumane US immigration…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature45+5 min: Crystal Palace 1-0 Liverpool Jean-Philippe Mateta has hit the post with a marvellous long-range effort. It sounds like Palace have been quite magnificent in the first half.Share45+3 min: Leeds 1-1 Bournemouth “While I’m absolutely delighted to see Antoine Semenyo still at Bournemouth, I’m also completely baffled as to why he is,” writes Charlie Robinson. “He’s just such a delight to watch running at opponents, and I honestly can’t think of a Premier League player who puts a bigger smile on my face.“Having kept an eye on the…

Drones have been seen near military facilities including Denmark’s largest, following a series of incidents that caused air disruption earlier this week.The devices were observed above Karup airbase, among others, forcing it to briefly close its airspace to commercial traffic. Possible sightings were also reported in Germany, Norway and Lithuania.It is the latest in a string of suspicious drone activity in Denmark, raising concerns about the nation’s vulnerability to aerial attack and sparking fears of potential Russian involvement.Danish authorities said Thursday’s incursions appeared to be a “hybrid attack”, but cautioned that they had no evidence to suggest Moscow was behind…

Four years after Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci” angered members of the Gucci family and a large part of Italy’s film community for what they claimed was a crass and inaccurate portrayal of the Gucci saga, pay-TV operator Sky has announced a high-end Italian TV series that will aim to set things right. The six-episode series — titled “Gucci: Game Over” — will be directed by Gabriele Muccino, who helmed Will Smith-starrer “The Pursuit of Happyness” and a slew of Italian film and TV hits. The show is based on a memoir by Allegra Gucci, the daughter of Maurizio Gucci and…

More than 20 people have been rescued in Kenya from a suspected human trafficking ring that lured them with job offers in Russia but intended to send them to fight in Ukraine, police said.It follows an intelligence-led raid on a residential apartment on the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi, where officers seized recruitment materials, travel documents, and job offer letters.One suspect, accused of coordinating the victims’ travel to Russia in September and October, has been arrested.He was taken to court, which allowed him to be detained for 10 days while the police complete their investigations.There have been growing concerns over…