Ukraine war — US envoy Witkoff holds talks with Putin as Trump urges Russia to “get moving”

U.S. President Donald Trumps special envoy, Steve Witkoff, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Friday,  April 11 as part of renewed efforts to broker peace in the ongoing war in Ukraine. The high-profile meeting took place in the citys presidential library and was broadcast on Russian state television.Video footage released earlier by…

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Poetic Interventions: Martín Espada’s New Collection and the Fight Against Fascism

One of the late Jacques Derrida’s most useful exercises in linguistic play was to hyphenate “represent.” The word that appears after the alteration, “re-present,” offers transformed definition and application. To re-present something, especially a memory, is to present it anew, but also to mark, mangle, and manufacture a different present. The present now, which is…

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Finance Ministry to Establish Compliance Desk Under New Public Financial Management (PFM) Act Amendments

Ghana’s Finance Ministry is set to establish a dedicated Compliance Desk as part of efforts to enforce the upgraded Public Financial Management (PFM) Act, 2025. This was announced by the Minister for Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, during a meeting with the World Bank Africa team, led by Vice President Ousmane Diagana. This initiative is…

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