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

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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

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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)

Trump halts enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials

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Pres­i­dent directs DoJ to pause pros­e­cu­tions under For­eign Cor­rupt Prac­tices Act, and issues par­don to Rod Blago­je­vich Don­ald Trump signed an exec­u­tive order on Mon­day direct­ing the US jus­tice depart­ment to halt pros­e­cut­ing Amer­i­cans accused of brib­ing for­eign gov­ern­ment offi­cials to win busi­ness. The order instructs the US attor­ney gen­er­al, Pam Bon­di, to pause prosecutions…

Like it or not, the rules-based order is no more

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Ivo Daalder, for­mer U.S. ambas­sador to NATO, is CEO of the Chica­go Coun­cil on Glob­al Affairs and host of the week­ly pod­cast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond col­umn. A few weeks ago, when Dan­ish Prime Min­is­ter Mette Fred­erik­sen spoke with soon-to-be U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump about his insis­tence on…

The Inside Story: The Life and Legacy of Jimmy Carter | 178

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    Tran­script: The Inside Sto­ry: The Life & Lega­cy of Pres­i­dent Jim­my Carter Episode 178 — Jan­u­ary 9, 2025   Show Open:   Pres­i­dent Jim­my Carter:    I Jim­my Carter do solemn­ly swear….       KANE FARABAUGH, VOA Cor­re­spon­dent:    As the 39th pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States, Jim­my Carter promised a gov­ern­ment as good…