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• Protesters reject talks to save India's Nano car plant

  - 2008-08-25

  KOLKATA, India AFP — Opposition leaders on Monday rejected a fresh offer of talks from the head of India's West Bengal state and vowed to continue protests against a plant where the world's cheapest car is being built. The head of opposition Trinamool Congress Mamata Banerjee, who launched an...

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• Siege protest at India's Nano car plant

  - 2008-08-24

  SINGUR, India AFP — About 40,000 protesters on Sunday surrounded the Indian factory slated to produce the world's cheapest car, alleging land for the site was forcibly taken from local farmers, police said. Demonstrators blocked main roads near the plant at Singur, 35 kilometres (20 miles) northwest of the...

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• Boom and gloom: Egypt's new traffic law brings business and fear

  - 2008-08-21

  CAIRO AFP — A new traffic law aimed at easing chronic congestion in Egypt has scared off some drivers who fear heavy fines, driven others to expect to pay higher bribes, and even sparked a business boom. The law, which came into effect on August 1, has seen an...

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• Germany says still at odds with France over emissions

  - 2008-06-06

  BERLIN AFP — Germany and France are still at odds over EU-wide plans to reduce car emissions and will not sign an agreement at a bilateral summit next week, a German government spokesman said Friday. "There are reports in the press saying that the row has been resolved. I...

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• Car bomb kills four as violence returns to Pakistan

  - 2008-04-25

  MARDAN, Pakistan AFP — Four people were killed and 30 hurt when a car bomb demolished a police station in northwest Pakistan on Friday, ending a lull in attacks since a new government took power last month. Pakistani Taliban militants said the blast in the city of Mardan was...

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• German auto industry says ready for biofuel ramp-up

  - 2008-04-03

  FRANKFURT AFP — Germany's automakers association played down concerns Thursday that large numbers of cars would be incompatible with a new biofuel mix that the government wants to introduce to cut emissions. Chancellor Angela Merkel's government wants to double the proportion of biofuel in petrol to 10 percent by...

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• Lebanon braces for mass rally to mark Hariri killing

  - 2008-02-13

  BEIRUT AFP — Lebanon braced on Wednesday for a mass rally by backers of the Western-backed government to commemorate the third anniversary of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's murder amid mounting street clashes with the opposition. Pro-government leaders have called on hundreds of thousands of supporters to converge Thursday on Martyr's...

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• World a 'better place' without Hezbollah leader: US spokesman

  - 2008-02-13

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States said Wednesday the "world is a better place" without a top commander of the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah, who was assassinated in a car bombing in Damascus. Analysts and others, however, warned of the high likelihood of retaliation against Israel, which Hezbollah...

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• Free petrol boon for Turkmen car drivers

  - 2008-02-09

  ASHGABAT AFP — Turkmens will be taking to their cars with a spring in their step from Saturday after the government declared it will be giving drivers 120 litres of free petrol every month. Drivers of trucks, tractors and buses will get 200 litres for free every month and...

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• Students from Egypt stopped in US had fireworks: FBI

  - 2008-02-01

  MIAMI AFP — Two Egyptian students at a Florida university, accused by prosecutors of promoting terrorist attacks, had fireworks and not explosives in their car when they were detained, the FBI reported. Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 24, and Yussef Samir Megahed, 21, both engineering students at the University of...

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