2016 Kia Sorento V-6 AWD – Instrumented Test
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2015 Alfa Romeo 4C Spider Drive: Fast, Loud, and Fun
– Alfa Romeo’s new 4C Spider is not a convertible in the sense that, say, an Aston Vanquish Volante is a convertible. Instead, the flyweight Alfa features a roll-up soft top that can be stashed in the car’s diminutive trunk, leaving just enough room for a slender knapsack and a sack lunch. Alternately, a lift-off carbon-fiber hardtop is available for $3500; this panel is not stowable in the vehicle. The
Holy John Muir! 2016 Subaru Forester Pricing Announced
– Denizens of Multnomah County, Oregon, rejoice, for your automotive lord and savior, Fuji Heavy Industries, has announced the cash layout required to purchase yourself a brand-spankin’-new 2016 Subaru Forester, a vehicle as at home on the streets of Portland as it is in the wilds of neighboring Skamania County, Washington. (We really just wanted to type “Skamania” because it makes us think of thousands upon thousands of lumberjacks skanking
2015 Alfa Romeo 4C Spider – First Drive Review
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Egypt court hands Mursi death sentence in blow to Muslim Brotherhood
By Mahmoud Mourad and Omar Fahmy CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court sentenced deposed President Mohamed Mursi to death on Tuesday over a mass jail break during the country’s 2011 uprising and issued sweeping punishments against the leadership of Egypt’s oldest Islamic group. The general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, and four other Brotherhood leaders were also handed the death penalty. The Brotherhood described the rulings as “null
Al Qaeda deputy leader killed in U.S. bombing in Yemen
By Noah Browning and Mohammed Ghobari DUBAI/SANAA (Reuters) – The deputy leader of al Qaeda, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, has been killed in a U.S. bombing in Yemen, the group said on Tuesday, removing the director of a string of attacks against the West and a man once seen as a successor to leader Ayman al-Zawahri. A close associate of Osama bin Laden in the years leading up to the Sept. 11,
U.S. denies Israeli report on Obama inviting Netanyahu to meet
The White House denied an Israeli newspaper report on Tuesday that U.S. President Barack Obama had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet in Washington next month. Citing unnamed U.S. State Department sources, Yedioth Ahronoth daily said the two leaders could meet in the White House on July 15 or 16, after the June 30 deadline for an Iranian nuclear deal over which they have frequently clashed. Since Netanyahu’s
Putin says Russia beefing up nuclear arsenal
By Maria Tsvetkova KUBINKA, Russia (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday Russia would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year, a remark that is likely to increase alarm in the West. Putin made his announcement a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S. plan to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia’s border as the most aggressive act
Victories over Islamic State give Syria Kurds claim to bigger role
By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) – With a string of victories over Islamic State, Syria’s Kurds are proving themselves an ever more dependable ally in the U.S.-led fight against the jihadists and building influence that will make them a force in Middle Eastern politics. Aided by U.S.-led air strikes, the Kurdish-led YPG militia may have dealt Islamic State its worst defeat to date in Syria by seizing the town of
Rivals signal defiance as Yemen crisis talks open in Geneva
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the Geneva discussions on Monday calling for a humanitarian ceasefire with the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. U.N. envoy Ould Cheikh Ahmed began shuttling between rival delegations in “proximity talks”. As the talks began, a Yemeni news agency reported a raid on a school in central Yemen killed four women and a child.