TAIPEI, March 23 (Reuters) - Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Thursday that President Tsai Ing-wen's meeting with U.S.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the United States is still in the process of being arranged.

BRUSSELS, March 20 (Reuters) - European Union member states have agreed to supply one million rounds of artillery ammunition to Ukraine, Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur said on the sidelines of a meeting with his EU counterparts in Brussels on Monday.

TAIPEI, March 21 (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will transit the United States to and from a visit to Central America on a trip starting at the end of this month, the presidential office said on Tuesday.

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. 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.

Those changes, including the safeguards imposed by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, were, largely, to the good. The pace of failures reached similar heights in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, but since then failures have been much less common. On average, an American bank failed every three days between 1980 and 1994. The failures in recent days ended the second-longest stretch without a bank failure since the Great Depression.

At the end of 2022, the U.S. Just as before the 2008 financial crisis, banks have once again managed to ring up billions in profits by making risky bets and then gone running for government aid as those bets have started to sour. banking industry was sitting on a total of about $620 billion in unrealized losses as a result of investments undermined by the rise of interest rates. But the wide-ranging intervention is only necessary because the newly shuttered banks - the second- and fourth-largest failed banks in American history - were not exceptions to a pattern of general probity.

If Republicans are serious about protecting election integrity and the rule of law, they´d celebrate ERIC as the enormous success it has been in helping states clean up their voter rolls by identifying people who have died or moved, as well as those who have cast ballots in multiple states.

Sanders is specifically targeting Mr. Bancel because his company worked with the Trump Administration´s Operation Warp Speed (OWS) to accelerate its vaccine development. Bancel apparently should have known better than to work with the government.

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.

The report, released Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warns that the planet is on track to blow past 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming, a critical threshold virtually every nation on Earth agreed to work to avoid. We can expect to overshoot that within about a decade unless we immediately switch to renewable energy and slash planet-warming pollution in half by 2030. More than a century of burning coal, oil and gas is catching up with us, and there´s little time to change course.

Two decades on from the beginning of the war, with the "shock and awe" assault of March 19, 2003, we are still fathoming the impact of the U.S.-led and U.K.-backed invasion. The body count and wider damage have not stopped rising since. When the 10th anniversary arrived, Islamic State (IS), birthed by the war´s fallout, had yet to make its frightening rise to establishing a "caliphate". Whatever relief or joy was felt by Iraqis at the fall of Saddam Hussein´s violent and oppressive regime, it was soon subsumed by the horror of what followed. It did not take long for anyone to realize that the Iraq war was the disaster that many had predicted; not much longer than it took to confirm that it was launched on a lie and that there were no weapons of mass destruction.

The new law increased the threshold for the strictest category of regulatory scrutiny to $250 billion from $50 billion. Congress bears responsibility, too. In 2018, a bipartisan bill weakened regulatory oversight of midsize lenders like Silicon Valley Bank, reversing key portions of the Dodd-Frank Act. Greg Becker, the chief executive of Silicon Valley Bank, testified before Congress in 2015 that his institution, like others of its size, "does not present systemic risks." Signature Bank officials also lobbied for, and benefited from, the 2018 changes.

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.)