Nigeria's Ruling Party Wins Majority Of States In Local Election
In the key northeastern region of Adamawa -- which could see the election of Nigeria's first woman governor -- the results were declared "inconclusive" as the number of voters unable to cast their ballot was greater than the margin between the two fro
MILAN, March 21 (Reuters) - An Italian court on Tuesday agreed to hand over to U.S authorities a Russian national who has been accused of offences including shipping oil from Venezuela in breach of sanctions.
Moderna´s vaccine has proven more durable and protective against severe illness than Pfizer´s in real-world studies. Yet the Administration has consistently paid Pfizer $3 to $4 more per dose. If not for the Moderna-OWS cooperation, the vaccine rollout would have been much slower. As a result, Pfizer has received more than a billion dollars more from the government than Moderna.
According to the results from Saturday's vote declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), APC won the governorship in 15 states -- Lagos, Sokoto, Katsina, Jigawa, Gombe, Kwara, Niger, Yobe, Nasarawa, Cross River, Ebonyi, Ogun, Benue, Kaduna
Walmart has been investing heavily in automation over the past few years, partnering with automation companies such as Knapp to help it cut down the number of steps it takes employees to process e-commerce orders to five from 12, which has been implemented at its Pedricktown, New Jersey location, for instance.
had joined - including the six tightest presidential battlegrounds. Four of the seven charter members were Republican-led states. The system compiles voter participation records from member states along with change-of-address records from the U.S. By last year, 34 states plus D.C.
The spokesperson said impacted workers would be paid for 90 days to find jobs at other facilities, including those in Joliet, Illinois, and Lancaster, Texas, where the company has opened up new high-tech e-commerce distribution centers.
Judges gave the green light to extradite Uss, who was detained at Milan's Malpensa aiport on an international arrest warrant last October and is now under house arrest, on charges of violating an embargo against Venezuela and for bank fraud.
prosecutors last year charged Uss and four other Russian citizens with shipping military technologies bought from U.S. manufacturers to Russian buyers, some of which ended up on the battlefield in Ukraine.
Erin Walker, public policy director of Montana child safety organization Project STAND, told NBC News McKenna spoke about the draft legislation, and she then raised the idea with politicians in her state.
Yet the details of Silicon Valley Bank´s rise and fall are depressingly familiar. The bank took big risks to grow quickly by gathering and investing money from a wide range of tech start-ups; its shareholders cheered, and its auditors and regulators did nothing to interfere. Regulators also should have limited the bank´s dangerous reliance on large, uninsured deposits. Indeed, regulators treated Silicon Valley Bank´s core strategy of investing in government bonds as essentially risk free, blind to the dangers posed by a rapid rise in interest rates.
'We recently adjusted staffing levels to better prepare for the future needs of customers,' Walmart said in a statement, adding that it would work closely with affected associates to find jobs at other locations.
About 200 workers at Pedricktown, New Jersey, and hundreds of others at Fort Worth, Texas; Chino, California; Davenport, Florida; and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania were let go due to a reduction or elimination in evening and weekend shifts, the spokesperson said.
On a post-earnings call in February, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said he was 'most excited about the automation opportunity we have' with plans to increase investments in automation technology as part of its more than $15-billion capital expenditure budget this year.
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. 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.
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. 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.)
No good treatment goes unpunished for pharmaceutical companies these days, and Bernie Sanders will offer another example on Wednesday when he holds a political show trial of Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel. Cooperating with the government to produce life-saving Covid vaccines.
Overshooting climate thresholds can seem inevitable, and we may feel powerless to stop it. But we are not without power to alter this course by making different decisions every day that, when added up, can reduce the severity of global warming we will live with for decades to come. It can be overwhelming nonetheless to contrast how little is being done about climate change with the clarity of the science.
