“When we start to lead again, when we start to get the weakness out and stop putting our head in the sand, that’s when our friends, India, Australia, New Zealand, all of them will—and Israel, Japan, South Korea—all of them want to do that. Japan gave themselves a billion-dollar stimulus to become less dependent on China,” Haley said.

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Russia’s main election authority on Thursday refused to allow a politician opposing Moscow’s military action in Ukraine on the ballot for the upcoming presidential election. Boris Nadezhdin, a local legislator in a town near Moscow, was required by law to gather at least 100,000 signatures in support of candidacy, but the Central Election Commission declared more than 9,000 of them invalid.

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