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BERLIN (NUT DESK)  Volkswagen (VW) has issued a recall for more than 150,000 Audi vehicles in the United States on concerns that their passenger air bags might not activate, according to a filing to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

The recall is expected to affect 153,152 Audi A3 cars built between 2015 and 2020, including the Sedan, Etron and Cabriolet models, as well as certain S3 Sedans.

The system which detects whether the passenger seat is occupied might malfunction and switch off the air bag even if a person is sitting there, the filing said.

Volkswagen will write to owners of the affected vehicles by May 21 and will contact them again once a solution to the problem has been found.

 

 

 

 

TEHRAN (NUT DESK) Iran and China signed a 25-year “strategic cooperation pact” Saturday in the latest expansion of Beijing´s flagship trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative as the US rivals move closer together. Negotiations for the deal, launched five years ago, sparked controversy in Iran last year and virtually no details of its contents have been released. China is Iran´s leading trade partner and was one of the biggest buyers of Iranian oil before then US president Donald Trump reimposed sweeping unilateral sanctions in 2018 after abandoning a multilateral nuclear agreement with Tehran. The China-Iran pact, which Tehran said included “political, strategic and economic” components, was signed by the two countries´ foreign ministers, Wang Yi and Mohammad Javad Zarif, media reported. “We believe this document can be very effective in deepening” Iran-China relations, Iran´s foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said, recalling that the pact had first been proposed during a visit to Tehran by Chinese President Xi Jinping in January 2016. Xi and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani agreed then to establish a roadmap for “reciprocal investments in the fields of transport, ports, energy, industry and services.” “Iran´s government and people are striving as they always have to broaden relations with trustworthy, independent countries like China,” supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said at the time, describing the proposed cooperation agreement as “correct and reasonable”. Xi has championed the Belt and Road Initiative, a plan to fund infrastructure projects and increase China´s sway overseas.

Lahore (NUT DESK) On the instructions of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the lights of Prime Minister Office were switched off on Saturday for an hour to observe Earth Hour.

In his remarks, the Prime Minister said that improving environment was the top priority of the government. The Prime Minister appealed to the people to support the government in its efforts for a clean and pollution free environment.

Lahore (NUT DESK) The price of 24 karat per tola gold increased by Rs 400 on Saturday and was traded at Rs 106,700 against its sale at Rs 106,300, Karachi Sarafa and Jewellers Group reported.

The price of 10 gram 24 karat gold also increased by Rs 343 and was traded at Rs 91,478 against Rs 91,135 whereas the prices of ten gram 22 karat gold went up to Rs 83,855 from Rs 83,541. The price of per tola and ten gram silver remained constant at Rs1360 and Rs1165.98 respectively.

The gold price in the international market increased by $9 and was traded at $1733 against its sale at $1724, the association added.