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• Nissan mulls plug-in hybrids: official

  - 2008-09-03

  TOKYO AFP — Nissan is considering developing plug-in hybrid vehicles that can be charged at home, as it seeks to catch up with its rivals in fuel-sipping cars, an official said Wednesday. Japan's third-largest automaker is considering the move as consumers are increasingly switching to fuel-efficient cars due to...

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• Pakistan PM escapes assassination attempt

  - 2008-09-03

  ISLAMABAD AFP — Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani escaped an apparent assassination attempt when two shots hit his motorcade Wednesday, just three days before the country's presidential election. Officials said Gilani was not in the targeted car at the time, but the brazen daytime attack underscored the turmoil...

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• Russian police break up demo over Kremlin critic's death

  - 2008-09-02

  NAZRAN, Russia AFP — Russian security forces on Tuesday broke up a rare protest in the turbulent Caucasus province of Ingushetia called in response to the death of a Kremlin critic who had been in police custody. Police and special forces arrived in two trucks to disperse the demonstration,...

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• Car bomb kills 4, wounds 12 in Colombia

  - 2008-09-01

  BOGOTA AFP — A car bomb exploded early Monday in Colombia's third largest city Cali, killing four people and wounding at least 12 in one of the deadliest urban attacks this year, authorities said. The explosion occurred five minutes after midnight (0505 GMT) near the Palace of Justice, where...

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• Protests halt construction of Tata car plant in India

  - 2008-08-31

  SINGUR, India AFP — Thousands of Indians staged loud protests Sunday outside a factory being built to produce the world's cheapest car, forcing a halt to construction work at the site, officials said. A team of Japanese experts helping Tata Motors with the production of the 2,500-dollar Nano car...

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• British 'greasers' reach Athens in cooking oil cars

  - 2008-08-27

  ATHENS AFP — A group of Britons on Wednesday completed a 3,750-kilometre (2,330-mile) 'Grease to Greece' expedition in cars powered by vegetable oil in a bid to raise awareness about conserving fuel, organisers said. Some of the nine cars were converted to run on purified vegetable oil while others...

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• Car bomb injures 13 in Saddam's home town

  - 2008-08-26

  TIKRIT, Iraq AFP — A car bomb in Tikrit, the central Iraq hometown of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, injured 13 people including four policemen on Tuesday, police said. The downtown explosion occurred at 7:30 am (0430GMT) next to the central health department, a police official said. Despite the...

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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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• Iraq suicide bomber kills five in car showroom

  - 2008-08-23

  KIRKUK, Iraq AFP — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a car dealership in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing at least five people and wounding nine, police said. The attack targeted a leader of a group fighting Al-Qaeda in the town of Khalis in...

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