Russian President Vladimir Putin courted leaders from Africa at a summit on Friday, hailing the continent's growing role in global affairs and offering to expand political and business ties.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin courted leaders from Africa at a summit on Friday, hailing the continent's growing role in global affairs and offering to expand political and business ties. Addressing the two-day day Russia-Africa summit, Putin emphasized that Moscow will closely analyze a peace proposal for Ukraine that African leaders have sought to pursue. “This is an acute issue, and we aren't evading its consideration,” Putin said, emphasizing that Russia is treating the African initiative with respect and “looking at it attentively.” Putin also reaffirmed his pledge that Russia will maintain steady supplies of grain and other agricultural products to the continent after its withdrawal from a deal allowing grain shipments from Ukraine that fueled concerns of global food crisis. “Russia will always be a responsible international supplier of agricultural products and will continue to support the countries and region in need by offering free grain and other supplies,” the Russian leader said. He declared at the summit's opening Thursday that Russia intends to ship up to 50,000 tons of grain aid to Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, Eritrea and Central African Republic in the next three to four months. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres responded Thursday that such donations of grain can't compensate for the impact of Moscow’s cutoff of grain exports from Ukraine, which along with Russia is a major supplier to the world market. Guterres said the U.N. is in contact with Turkey, Ukraine, Russia and other countries to try to reestablish the deal that saw Ukraine export more than 32,000 tons of grain, allowing global food prices to drop significantly. Both Russia and Ukraine are major grain suppliers. The deal brokered a year ago by the U.N. and Turkey reopened Ukrainian Black Sea ports blocked by fighting and provided assurances that ships entering them wouldn't be attacked. Russia declined to renew the agreement last week, complaining that its own exports were being held up. Putin used the summit to repeat his accusations against the West for obstructing the export of Russian grain and fertilizers, including proposed no-cost supplies of fertilizers to Africa. The Russia-Africa summit marks a renewed Kremlin effort to bolster ties with a continent of 1.3 billion people that is increasingly assertive on the global stage. Africa’s 54 nations make up the largest voting bloc at the United Nations and have been more divided than any other region on General Assembly resolutions criticizing Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Only 17 heads of state were at the summit, compared to 43 at the first Russia-Africa summit in 2019, a sharp drop in attendance that the Kremlin has attributed to what it described as “outrageous” Western pressure to discourage African countries from showing up. Putin hailed Africa's role in the emerging “multipolar world order,” noting that “the era of hegemony of one or several countries is receding into the past, albeit not without resistance on the part of those who got used to their own uniqueness and monopoly in global affairs." “Russia and Africa are united by an innate desire to defend true sovereignty and the right to their own distinctive path of development in the political, economic, social, cultural and other spheres,” he said. He said that Russia plans to expand trade and economic ties with Africa and continue efforts to relieve their debt burden by writing off another $90 million in their debts. Putin noted that Moscow also stands ready to bolster defense ties with African countries by helping train their military and expanding supplies of military equipment, some of them on a no-cost basis. ___ Vladimir Isachenkov contributed to this report from Moscow.

Prometheus means Forethinker : Planner

Prometheus, in Greek religion, one of the Titans, the supreme trickster, and a god of fire. His intellectual side was emphasized by the apparent meaning of his name, Forethinker. In common belief he developed into a master craftsman, and in this connection he was associated with fire and the creation of mortals.

The God bound Prometheus / Planner to a rock , torchered him

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Prometheus is the Ancient Greek myth of human origin, corresponding to the Garden of Eden. It was Homo Erectuses 1.5 million years ago who first invented controlling fire , so I tell my classes that Prometheus was a Homo Erectus .

Kamala Harris to travel to Florida and speak out against state's new Black history standards

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Teamsters claim big win with 5-year tentative pact with UPS By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—The Teamsters claimed a big win on July 25 when, within hours of bargaining restarting for the first time in three weeks, UPS agreed to a five-year tentative contract with the union. The pact gives workers substantial raises, eliminates many part-time jobs by raising the positions, and the workers in them, to full-time, and effectively kills the hated two-tier wage system at the nation’s largest package delivery company, which employs 340,000 Teamsters. “We’ve changed the game,” union President Sean O’Brien exulted. Had bosses not settled, they would have forced the workers to strike and cost their own company hundreds of millions of dollars a day. Had the union been forced to walk, it would have been the largest private-sector strike against a single company in U.S. history. The current contract expires at midnight July 31. Before the July 25 session, UPS honchos had walked out of bargaining at 4:15 am on July 5 after presenting what O’Brien called “an insulting” wage offer. “Rank-and-file UPS Teamsters sacrificed everything to get this country through a pandemic and enabled UPS to reap record-setting profits,” O’Brien declared in the union’s extensive press release. “The union went into this fight committed to winning for our members. We demanded the best contract in the history of UPS, and we got it. UPS has put $30 billion in new money on the table as a direct result of... READ MORE >> Nicaragua celebrates 44th anniversary of Sandinista Revolution By Jamal Rich U.S.-backed coup attempt of 2018 has only strengthened FSLN’s popular support. READ >> Mass Israel chaos over Netanyahu court coup draws mostly silence in U.S. By Mark Gruenberg Only a handful of U.S. trade union leaders and lawmakers condemned the PM’s moves. READ >> Connect with People's World Contact us 3339 S. Halsted Street | Chicago, Illinois 60608 773-446-9920 | contact@peoplesworld.org Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your web browser Unsubscribe or Manage Your Preferences

Gender is determined by objective physiological characteristics, not subjective feelings: Stand with Kellie-Jay Keen and Natural Women

Gender is determined by objective physiological sexual characteristics and behaviors , not subjective feelings .