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Mark Carney laments Canada’s lost friendship with US in visit to 9/11 town

Cana­di­an PM makes remarks on vis­it to New­found­land town that shel­tered US air­line pas­sen­gers after attacks Mark Car­ney has lament­ed Canada’s lost friend­ship with the Unit­ed States as he vis­it­ed the town that shel­tered thou­sands of strand­ed Amer­i­can air­line pas­sen­gers after the 9/11 attacks. The Cana­di­an prime minister’s vis­it to Gan­der, New­found­land, on the second…

In Canada, I saw how Trump is ripping North America apart – and how hard its bond will be to repair | Andy Beckett

With the US pres­i­dent now warmer to Moscow than to Ottawa, it’s lit­tle sur­prise Cana­di­ans I met rolled their eyes at the decline of the spe­cial rela­tion­ship As wealthy but light­ly defend­ed coun­tries have often learned, being close to a much more pow­er­ful state – geo­graph­i­cal­ly or diplo­mat­i­cal­ly – can be a pre­car­i­ous exis­tence. All…

As Trump pivots to Russia, allies weigh sharing less intel with U.S. — NBC News

As Trump piv­ots to Rus­sia, allies weigh shar­ing less intel with U.S.  NBC News ‘What the Hell Is Hap­pen­ing to Your Coun­try?’  The Atlantic Why some U.S. allies are reassess­ing intel­li­gence shar­ing with the Trump admin­is­tra­tion  MSNBC Amer­i­­ca-Led Spy Net­work Risks Col­lapse Over Trump-Rus­sia Fears  Newsweek Trump deep­ens NATO’s cri­sis of trust on shar­ing intel  POLITICO Europe

Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents

KYIV — Four senior mem­bers of Don­ald Trump’s entourage have held secret dis­cus­sions with some of Kyiv’s top polit­i­cal oppo­nents to Volodymyr Zelen­skyy, just as Wash­ing­ton aligns with Moscow in seek­ing to lever the Ukrain­ian pres­i­dent out of his job.  The senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrain­ian oppo­si­tion leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorse­less­ly ambi­tious former…

U.S. slips to new low in international corruption index — Axios

U.S. slips to new low in inter­na­tion­al cor­rup­tion index  Axios CPI 2024 for the Amer­i­c­as: Cor­rup­tion fuels envi­ron­men­tal crime and impuni­ty across the region  Trans­paren­cy Inter­na­tion­al Cor­rup­tion derail­ing cli­mate fight, watch­dog warns  Al Jazeera Eng­lish Cor­rup­tion worse than it’s been in over a decade in many nations, sur­vey shows  CBS News Trans­paren­cy Inter­na­tion­al: Cor­rup­tion is a cli­mate issue  DW (Eng­lish)