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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.

Novak Djokovic said he had no regrets about missing tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami due to his Covid-19 vaccination status but hoped that he would be allowed into the United States later this year for the US Open.

military carried out air strikes against Iran-backed forces in retaliation for an attack that killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S. OTTAWA, March 24 (Reuters) - U.S.
President Joe Biden on Friday said the United States is prepared to "act forcefully" to protect Americans, commenting after the U.S.

"Make no mistake: the United States does not ... seek conflict with Iran, but be prepared for us to act forcefully to protect our people," Biden told reporters during an official visit to Canada. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal; writing by Jasper Ward; editing by Tim Ahmann)

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.

The DOJ and the financial market regulator the CFTC have continued investigating the firm and Gunvor expects to pay a fine.
"We are looking at whether to take a provision on our books for 2022," Tornqvist said.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 21 (Reuters) - Energy trader Gunvor made strong profits last year and is looking to expand its oil trading and develop a significant power trading arm in the United States, its CEO told Reuters.

"It was a very, very good year. All our activities did very well," CEO Torbjorn Tornqvist told Reuters on the sidelines of the Financial Times Commodities Global Summit, declining to give figures as the firm's results are still being finalised.

"Europe was taking about 110 billion cubic meters per year from Russia. That´s about 1,000 LNG cargoes. and the rest is demand destruction, close to 20%. Some of it is weather related," he said. We think Europe was able to cover about half...

Swiss energy traders have posted record returns over the last few years as they thrived in extremely volatile markets brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and then Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year.

Demagogues have planted seeds of doubt in the minds of Americans that their votes don´t count. Now many of these same people are trying to destroy one of the country´s best tools for fighting the rare cases of voter fraud that do occur. The attacks on the database aren´t really about ERIC.
They´re part of a broader, multiyear campaign to bully elections officials.

Yet the Administration has consistently paid Pfizer $3 to $4 more per dose. Moderna´s vaccine has proven more durable and protective against severe illness than Pfizer´s in real-world studies. As a result, Pfizer has received more than a billion dollars more from the government than Moderna. If not for the Moderna-OWS cooperation, the vaccine rollout would have been much slower.

Before the pandemic, Moderna developed its novel mRNA platform with $3.8 billion in private investment. Sanders claims that taxpayers paid to develop Moderna´s Covid vaccine, and the government thus should be able to dictate its price. In spring 2020, it raised another $1.3 billion in private capital to scale up manufacturing.

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. Overshooting climate thresholds can seem inevitable, and we may feel powerless to stop it. It can be overwhelming nonetheless to contrast how little is being done about climate change with the clarity of the science.

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.

Early in the Covid pandemic, Moderna received $900 million from OWS for trials to test its mRNA vaccine in partnership with the National Institutes of Health. Pfizer chose to go it alone because "when you get money from someone, that always comes with strings," as CEO Albert Bourla explained in September 2020.

Sanders, because they believe this advances their view that pharma companies profit from government innovation and support. Yet progressives are targeting Moderna as "a poster child for corporate greed," to quote Mr. The government and public benefit from Moderna´s billions of dollars spent on research and development. The truth is closer to the opposite.

Congress should also require clawbacks of executive compensation and dividends at failed banks. If bankers are required in the future to return some of what they have gained from their poor decisions, it might have a sobering effect.