Putin hosts African leaders in St. Petersburg

Russian President Vladimir Putin told African leaders gathered for a summit in St. Petersburg today that his government would provide grain shipments to six African nations for free, in order to help avert a food crisis caused by Putin’s decision to pull out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative last week. And, on July 27, 1953, the United Nations and North Korea signed a ceasefire, bringing an end to three years of fighting on the Korean Peninsula that killed more than 36,000 US soldiers and an estimated 2 million Korean civilians. But a formal peace agreement was never signed. Also, tributes to iconic Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor continue to pour in today after she was found dead in her London home on Wednesday at the age of 56. “Her music was loved around the world and her talent was unmatched and beyond compare,” wrote Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. Plus, the evolution of Senegalese rap.