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(Bloomberg) — In 2018, the arrest of an executive with Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co. for breaching US laws shocked President Xi Jinping’s inner circle and raised questions over whether Donald Trump would intervene in the case. Trump now faces a similar dilemma after US prosecutors charged Gautam Adani — India’s most powerful businessman and a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — in a $250 million bribery scheme. While Modi’s party called it a private matter, and Adani’s company denied the allegations, the case threatens to roil US-India diplomatic ties. Although Trump didn’t intervene in the Huawei case, which was eventually settled in 2021 after he left office, on its face he’ll have more incentive to make this case go away. Beyond Trump’s personal connection with Modi, the incoming US president has packed his team with China hawks who want to see stronger ties with India to counterbalance Beijing’s power in the region. Yet even if Trump does a favor for Adani, who praised the president-elect’s “unbreakable tenacity” after his election win, the case is yet another reminder of the long reach of US law — one that can affect both friends and foes around the world. A proliferation of American sanctions targeting Russia, China and even India, although it’s mostly gotten waivers, has accelerated the expansion of the BRICS grouping as nations seek an alternative to the US dominance of the financial system. For India in particular, the charges against Adani only reinforces its strategy to keep a foot in both major camps, staying friendly with the US while also keeping up good ties with Russia, China and other major economies in what’s known as the Global South. India remains reliant on Russian weapons and energy, and soon plans to host Vladimir Putin for the first time since the war began. “The indictment of Adani is seen in New Delhi as politically driven and will have a bearing on US-India collaboration and mutual trust unless the incoming Trump administration drops the prosecution,” said Brahma Chellaney, a professor of strategic studies at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi. “Much will be depend on how the next US administration seeks to chart the relationship with India.” India’s Ministry of External Affairs declined to comment when contacted for further information. Trump’s team didn’t respond to requests for further information. For the moment, it remains unclear if Modi will look to distance himself from Adani. He’s facing a more vocal opposition, who have more than doubled their support in the parliament after elections earlier this year, and are now pushing for federal investigators to probe Adani. Modi’s party suffered a setback in the polls that forced him to govern with coalition partners for the first time. Even so, if India has a national champion, it’s the Adani Group. Modi and the billionaire share deep links going back decades in their home state of Gujarat, and Adani was instrumental in helping revive the prime minister’s reputation when he came under attack over religious riots in 2002. After the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder, the Communist Party eventually portrayed it as an attack on China and celebrated her return, even saying Xi personally gave instructions on the case. Modi may take a different approach, possibly using his personal ties with Trump and the US’s strategic need for India’s support in the region as leverage. And while Trump shares a mutual admiration with Modi, he’s long called out India for taking advantage of the US on trade. “I have no doubt that feelers have already been sent out to the Trump team,” said Milan Vaishnav, director and senior fellow of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Certainly, the Trump administration could decide not to pursue them or to settle them quickly and with little fanfare. The question, of course, is what will the famously transactional Trump want in return?” Trump’s Team Much will depend on who will run the Department of Justice. Trump personally has been prosecuted in a number of cases he says are politically motivated. His initial nomination of Matt Gaetz as attorney general and his subsequent pick of longtime ally Pam Bondi suggests there will be fewer guardrails on intervening in politically sensitive cases. Trump has already nominated several key people to his team who are pro-India supporters. Marco Rubio, Trump’s pick for secretary of state, introduced a bill to the US Senate in July to boost defense ties with India and treat the South Asian nation as a NATO ally like Japan. Mike Waltz, who Trump has chosen as his national security adviser, was a guest of Modi at India’s Republic Day celebrations last year. The US government will have its own balancing act to manage. It gave Adani an endorsement last year when the US International Development Finance Corp. announced it would provide $553 million in financing to one of his business units for a port terminal in Sri Lanka’s capital, marking the government agency’s largest infrastructure investment in Asia. It’s unclear whether that project will still go forward. For India, which has leaned closer to the US in recent years, the Adani case only underscores the risks of jumping too far into the American camp. Tensions had already been high after US prosecutors accused an Indian government employee of directing a foiled plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist with US citizenship in New York. India’s top diplomat, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, once described the nation’s foreign policy in terms of “hedging.” That approach has allowed it to maintain friendly ties with the US and its allies while also remaining on good terms with Putin, who is a key supplier of oil and weapons. “India might be more cautious in diversifying its economic and strategic interests but the Modi government recognizes that the US is the most powerful country in the world and India can’t take it head on,” said Sushant Singh, a lecturer of South Asian studies at Yale University.Published 5:39 pm Saturday, November 30, 2024 By Data Skrive The New Orleans Pelicans (4-16) are keeping their eye on six players on the injury report, including Brandon Ingram, ahead of a Sunday, December 1 game against the New York Knicks (11-8) at Madison Square Garden. The Knicks have listed two injured players. The game tips at 6:00 PM ET. Watch the NBA, other live sports and more on Fubo. 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Tahj Brooks shines in final home game as Texas Tech routs West Virginia 52-15Floyd Mayweather , 47, said he'd welcome a real fight with Jake Paul under one condition — it would have to be at his own weight, rather than Paul's, who recently took on Mike Tyson in a sad, heavyweight boxing spectacle. Floyd Mayweather & Jake Paul's pro records (as of 25/11/24) Floyd Mayweather Jake Paul Fights 50 12 Wins 50 11 Losses 0 1 Paul, 27, boxed for the 12th time of his burgeoning career when, on Friday the 15th of November, he went 8 x 2-minute rounds with a 58-year-old Tyson at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. During the fight, there were two rounds in which Tyson failed to land a single punch. Paul, by contrast, appeared to daze Tyson a couple times, before taking his foot off the gas, and coasting toward a decision win. Numerous boxers at the elite level, including Artur Beterbiev and Daniel Dubois , have sent fight offers to Paul should he take on a real boxer. And Mayweather, too, has seemingly gotten in line. Mike Tyson & Jake Paul have been suspended from boxing, as have Amanda Serrano & Katie Taylor. Floyd Mayweather Comments on Jake Paul Mayweather talked to TMZ Sports about Paul's rise, and a possible bout between the internet sensation, and boxing's pound-for-pound stalwart Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez . "If you go back, you’ve got to look on the internet and do your homework, I think [Jake] was doing a podcast one time, and he was talking about, 'I don’t want to do an exhibition against Floyd Mayweather,' he said'‘I’m only doing real fights'," said Mayweather. Mayweather commented on the significant weight differential between them now. Paul boxes between cruiserweight, which has an upper limit of 200 pounds, and heavyweight. Mayweather, meanwhile, fought at welterweight in his latter days, which has a limit of 147 pounds. "Of course, I can’t get high up in weight," he said. "I’d fight him in a real fight in the weight that I’m at." Mayweather continued: "But Jake Paul, I mean as of right now, for what he’s doing, it’s good for what he’s doing, but once he fights a real actual fighter, it’s gonna be bad. One thing I do like about him, he’s selling it and he’s making good money and he’s entertaining, I like it." It is unclear who Paul could fight next, but he's had call-outs from numerous big name boxers — both active, and retired. There are fighters who Paul has spoken of frequently in the past, including Conor McGregor and Canelo. And Mayweather believes if ever Paul and Canelo did fight, the result would be clear. "He’d get f***** up by Canelo. There’s no way [that he’d win] he’d get demolished." Mayweather and Paul have history as Floyd boxed Paul's brother Logan in an exhibition in Miami Gardens in 2021. As it was an exhibition, no official winner could be declared. The build-up to Floyd and Logan's exhibition, though, was marked by a confrontation when Jake snatched Mayweather's hat from his head, and said: "Gotcha hat," before running away. Mayweather could then be seen and heard storming the hallways of the Hard Rock Stadium and made threats when searching for Paul.
NEW YORK (AP) — No ex-president had a more prolific and diverse publishing career than Jimmy Carter . His more than two dozen books included nonfiction, poetry, fiction, religious meditations and a children’s story. His memoir “An Hour Before Daylight” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002, while his 2006 best-seller “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” stirred a fierce debate by likening Israel’s policies in the West Bank to the brutal South African system of racial segregation. And just before his 100th birthday, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation honored him with a lifetime achievement award for how he wielded “the power of the written word to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding.” In one recent work, “A Full Life,” Carter observed that he “enjoyed writing” and that his books “provided a much-needed source of income.” But some projects were easier than others. “Everything to Gain,” a 1987 collaboration with his wife, Rosalynn, turned into the “worst threat we ever experienced in our marriage,” an intractable standoff for the facilitator of the Camp David accords and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. According to Carter, Rosalynn was a meticulous author who considered “the resulting sentences as though they have come down from Mount Sinai, carved into stone.” Their memories differed on various events and they fell into “constant arguments.” They were ready to abandon the book and return the advance, until their editor persuaded them to simply divide any disputed passages between them. “In the book, each of these paragraphs is identified by a ‘J’ or an ‘R,’ and our marriage survived,” he wrote. Here is a partial list of books by Carter: “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President” “The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East” (With Rosalynn Carter) “Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life” “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections” “Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age” “Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems” (With daughter Amy Carter) “The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer” “Living Faith” “The Virtues of Aging” “An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood” “Christmas in Plains: Memories” “The Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War” “Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis” “Faith & Freedom: The Christian Challenge for the World” “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” “A Remarkable Mother” “Beyond the White House” “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work” “White House Diary” “NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter” “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power” “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety”Another complaint filed with ICT against HasinaDemocrats and Republicans reacted to the news that former President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr. had died on Sunday at the age of 100, highlighting how he had “embodied decency and integrity” over his years “of public service.” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D), Kari Lake, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), and former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, were among those who expressed their condolences regarding Carter’s passing. “President Jimmy Carter embodied decency and integrity throughout his life of public service,” Hochul wrote in a post on X. “I’ll never forget as a teenager meeting him in Buffalo. He was an inspiration to me and so many Americans. Our hearts are with the Carter family during this difficult time.” “President Jimmy Carter lived a life of courage, fortitude, kindness and grace,” Abrams wrote in a post, adding that Carter had been “a giant who never saw anyone as smaller than himself.” “Whether at a Boys & Girls Club banquet or when he sponsored a medical clinic for the uninsured in his corner of rural Georgia, he lived James 2:17 each day,” Abrams added. “Jimmy Carter built homes, saved lives and tended to souls. God bless President Carter, may the family he and Mrs. Carter raised know only comfort in these days of grief.” Lake, who Trump picked to serve as the director of the United States government’s Voice of America (VOA), posted a heartfelt message. “Rest in peace, President Jimmy Carter,” Lake wrote . “May you be welcomed into the arms of Jesus in heaven. Our thoughts and prayers are with your family at this difficult time.” “I join my fellow Americans in mourning the passing of President Jimmy Carter, a man of deep conviction and humility who served our nation with great distinction as President, Naval Officer, and humanitarian,” Hogan wrote in a post on X. Hogan highlighted how Carter had “dedicated his life to lifting others up — whether through his tireless work with Habitat for Humanity, his fight against disease and poverty around the world, or his commitment to peace and democracy.” “Hillary and I mourn the passing of President Jimmy Carter and give thanks for his long, good life,” the Clintons said in a statement . “Guided by his faith, President Carter lived to serve others — until the very end.” “Suzanne and I join our nation to mourn the passing of Jimmy Carter, a devoted public servant and the 39th President,” Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) wrote in a post. “He served our country in the Navy, as a Georgia state senator, and as the Governor of Georgia. We are praying for the Carter family during this difficult time. His faith was always inspiring to others, may he rest in peace.” As Breitbart News previously reported , Carter’s son, James E. “Chip” Carter III announced that the former president had died. Carter served one term from 1977 to 1981 and ended up being defeated by former President Ronald Reagan.Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter dies at 100