#us-influence

#us-influence

On November 10, the Ukrainian anticorruption authorities revealed that close associates of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were allegedly involved in a scheme to embezzle $100m from Ukraine's energy sector. Zelenskyy's business partner Tymur Mindich as well as two government ministers have been named so far in the investigation, led by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), an agency backed by Western governments.

Radiant and somewhat surprised, he repeated it on October 26 to celebrate the far right's victory in the midterm elections. In the speech, Milei celebrated the results of the election his party, La Libertad Avanza (Freedom Advances), won 40% of the vote across Argentina and indicated his willingness to work with other political groups. There are dozens of deputies and senators from other parties with whom we can find basic agreements, he said.

The conference was announced by Downing Street ahead of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's arrival in Egypt on Monday for a peace plan signing co-chaired by US President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi. While Starmer has not attended the conference, convened at the UK Foreign Office's Wilton Park conference center, it has been led by the UK's Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer,

Hezbollah has branded the Lebanese government's push to have a state monopoly on arms as a grave sin and is dismissing it out of hand as if it doesn't exist.

Mr. Trump's misguided, incompetent attack on global trade threatens to irreparably harm U.S. influence across the world's most commercially dynamic region, leaving a vacuum for China to fill.