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– – After re-assessing its sales strategy surrounding the awesome SRT Hellcat variants of the Challenger and Charger for 2016, and increasing production to discourage dealer markups, Dodge is laying out the cars’ new prices. And guess what? The cars are more expensive—quite a bit more expensive, in fact, offsetting somewhat any possible reduction in dealers’ overcharging for the ultra-popular models.– – – – What’s the Hellcat’s True Potential? We
– Some Chevrolet Cobalt owners who repaired their ignition switches must now worry about their cars disabling the airbags again, this time for entirely different reasons. – – According to filings with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the 2010 Cobalt has wiring harnesses in the doors that were improperly installed at the factory and can cause the side curtain airbags to become inoperative in a crash. A total of
By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Park Geun-hye demanded on Monday that North Korea apologize over recent landmine blasts, even as the bitter rivals held marathon talks to defuse tensions that have brought the peninsula back to the brink of armed conflict. Park said anti-North propaganda broadcasts would continue unless Pyongyang took responsibility for landmine explosions early this month that wounded two South Korean
By Guy Faulconbridge TEHRAN (Reuters) – International sanctions on Iran could start to be lifted as early as spring next year, Britain’s foreign minister said on Monday, as Tehran and the West rebuild their ties and potentially open up billions of dollars of trade deals. Six world powers agreed in July to lift sanctions in return for Iran accepting long-term curbs on a nuclear program that the West suspected was
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the United States has been sending “signals” that it wants to start mending ties with Moscow, badly strained over the past year and a half by the conflict in Ukraine. The United States and European Union slapped economic sanctions on Russia last year after its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and support for a separatist rebellion in eastern Ukraine.
By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande on Monday awarded France’s highest honor, the Legion d’honneur, to three U.S. citizens and a Briton who helped disarm a machine gun-toting suspected Islamist militant on a train last week. You are the incarnation of that,” Hollande told the four men. The suspect’s lawyer said on Sunday the man named by intelligence sources as Ayoub el Khazzani, 26, of Morocco,
By Michele Kambas and Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) – A radical leftist opposed to Greece’s new bailout deal won a presidential mandate on Monday to try to form a new government but immediately admitted he would fail, pointing toward a snap election. Panagiotis Lafazanis, whose anti-bailout Popular Unity party was founded only on Friday, got three days to pull together a coalition after the main conservative opposition failed to do
By Nick Tattersall ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey and the United States will soon launch “comprehensive” air operations to flush Islamic State fighters from a zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Reuters on Monday. Detailed talks between Washington and Ankara on the plans were completed on Sunday, and regional allies including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan, as well as Britain and France may also take part,
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is picking up momentum to survive fierce opposition from Republican and Israeli opponents with Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on board.
Colombia’s FARC guerrillas admitted Monday to killing a black community leader in the country’s southwest in early August, a crime they had strongly condemned. After initially rejecting any link to the August 3 shooting of Genaro Garcia, an activist for those forced to flee their homes by Colombia’s five-decade guerrilla war, leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) admitted one of their units killed him. “After carrying out
