UPDATE 1-China says it has never deliberately pursued trade surplus...

Iraq currently appears relatively calm. troops are still present due to the ongoing battle against IS. Politicians and officials have pocketed billions. Though there is now a government, following a year of deadlock after elections and an outburst of violence in Baghdad, the state remains unable to keep the lights on or provide clean water.

Earlier this month, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said he had launched a civil investigation into Kia and Hyundai´s sale of vehicles to Minnesota consumers that lacked industry-standard, anti-theft technology and sought documents and answer questions under oath.

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. Those changes, including the safeguards imposed by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, were, largely, to the good. 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.



The attorneys general letter said the automakers had failed to take adequate steps to address the alarming rate of theft and urged them to accelerate the implementation of the software upgrade and provide free alternative protective measures for owners whose cars cannot support the software upgrade.



WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - A group of 22 U.S.
state attorneys general on Monday blasted Hyundai Motor and Kia Corp and said they need do more to address problems with millions of U.S. vehicles that are prone to theft.

7 shows that exports to China increased by $2.4 billion on the year to hit a "record high" of $153.8 billion in 2022, that is an "empty statement", according to a new report from the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). It identifies inflation as primarily responsible for this figure.

Regulators also should have limited the bank´s dangerous reliance on large, uninsured deposits. 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. 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. Yet the details of Silicon Valley Bank´s rise and fall are depressingly familiar.



DeSantis touted the system by name as a critical tool in his efforts to prosecute anyone who illegally voted.
The Office of Election Crimes and Security, which Mr. DeSantis created, said in a January report that ERIC had identified more than 1,000 voters who might have cast ballots in Florida and another member state. Ron DeSantis (R) touted ERIC´s ability to keep the state´s voter rolls up to date and boasted that "it will increase voter participation." Last summer, Mr.

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

And images from the  on Saturday show that fans can still buy the new strips with the Argentina international's name and No 7 on the back for £76.95. Alternatively supporters can buy a nameless home jersey for £60.

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.

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. military carried out air strikes against Iran-backed forces in retaliation for an attack that killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S.

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. More than a century of burning coal, oil and gas is catching up with us, and there´s little time to change course. 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.

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.

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. "Make no mistake: the United States does not ... (Reporting by Andrea Shalal; writing by Jasper Ward; editing by Tim Ahmann)