*West needs strategy to tie Ukraine aid to corruption progress, thinktank says.*

Journalists accuse Ukraine of controlling coverage of the war.

*The Biden administration … proposed revisions to Trump-era regulations that severely weakened protections for our nation's most imperiled animals and plants, keeping in place some of the most significant rollbacks to the Endangered Species Act in the law's 50-year history.*

An algorithm Used in Jordan's distribution of World Bank aid funds uses incorrect measures to calculate who are the neediest.

Ukraine calls for setting up a system whereby the assets of a country that launches a war of conquest will be seized and used to fix the damage.

It is fair to take Russia's assets, and those of Putin's cronies, and put them into rebuilding Ukraine. Let's do it. But we should not suppose that other dictators who in the future start wars of conquest will be vulnerable to the same tactic. Once they have seen this response to Putin, they will take care not to store their assets in countries that might not be on their side in a war.