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action targets former director of the Paraguayan Civil Aviation Authority, Edgar Melgarejo, current member of the Paraguayan Panel for the Discipline of Judges and Prosecutors, Jorge Bogarin, and current Court Clerk Vicente Ferreira, State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said in a statement.
WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday the United States was looking at ways to strengthen its sanctions against Iran, but acknowledged the sanctions had not resulted in the behavioral or policy changes Washington desires from Tehran.
March 23 (Reuters) - The United States has designated one former and two current Paraguayan officials for what Washington said was their involvement in "significant corruption," making the officials and their families ineligible for entry into the North American country.
In spring 2020, it raised another $1.3 billion in private capital to scale up manufacturing. Sanders claims that taxpayers paid to develop Moderna´s Covid vaccine, and the government thus should be able to dictate its price. Before the pandemic, Moderna developed its novel mRNA platform with $3.8 billion in private investment.
Carol Beecher, Alaska´s director of elections, told her state legislature last week that she´s evaluating whether to pull out of ERIC because "it´s expensive and we are a small state." What she didn´t say, according to the Anchorage Daily News, is that the state´s fees and dues have been less than $17,000 annually in recent years.
China has been permitting new coal-fired power plants at a staggering rate of two per week. Period." (Yes, he said it four times for emphasis.) President Biden last week approved the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska, giving ConocoPhillips permission to extract as much as 600 million barrels of oil over 30 years and breaking his campaign promise of "no more drilling on federal lands.
More than two dozen Republican luminaries, including lawyer Ben Ginsberg and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, signed a letter of support on Monday, pushing back against accusations that David Becker, an ex officio, nonvoting member of ERIC´s board, has connections to Mr.
Soros. ERIC is funded entirely through dues set, and paid, by member states.
The film was inspired by his experience as a hotel manager during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when his family and hundreds of guests -- mainly ethnic Tutsis like his wife -- took refuge inside the Mille Collines as machete-wielding mobs killed people outside the ho
Even after the vaccine transitions to the commercial market, Moderna´s price will be lower than for such vaccines as GSK´s shingles shot ($183) or Merck´s pneumonia vaccine ($216), according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Taxpayers were getting a bargain under the OWS contract that paid Moderna about $15 a dose.
OTTAWA, March 24 (Reuters) - The United States and Canada must together build a North American market on everything from semiconductors to solar panel batteries, in the face of growing competition, including from an "increasingly assertive China," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday.
More than half of Iraqis are too young to remember life under Saddam Hussein. Yet the low turnout underscored that others have given up on democracy, thanks to those who boasted that they were bringing it to justify their war. It may be many more years before we fully reckon the effects of the catastrophe unleashed two decades ago. Some now aspire to a society and government that looks beyond sectarianism and towards a brighter future, as the 2019 Tishreen movement, and the re-emergence of participants in 2021´s elections, showed.
To avoid irreversible damage to our communities and ecosystems, we can´t just stop permitting new oil and gas drilling and coal- and gas-fired power plants, and end production of combustion-engine vehicles. Humans have already overheated Earth by 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit). We have to cancel and retire existing fossil fuel projects as well.
This board warned that policymakers were inviting another crisis. Lawmakers accepted the arguments of the two banks, and their allies, barely a decade after the failure of similar-size lenders like Washington Mutual and National City Bank played a starring role in the 2008 financial crisis. The recklessness of that decision, and companion measures to loosen other safeguards, was clear at the time.
March 23 (Reuters) - Wall Street was set to open higher on Thursday after the Federal Reserve hinted it was close to pausing interest rate hikes amid a turmoil in the banking sector that threatens to cause a severe economic downturn.
If they are as effective as public-health officials say, then the benefits from reducing hospitalizations among the elderly would more than exceed the new higher price. White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre piled on by claiming Moderna´s price hike is "hard to justify" even as Biden officials hail the benefits of Covid vaccines and boosters.