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Switzerland bans sale of Volkswagen cars
Swiss authorities said Friday they had temporarily banned the sale of new Volkswagen brand diesel-engine models potentially equipped with software capable of ...Volkswagen CEO steps down, takes responsibility for scandal
Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn resigned Wednesday over a pollution cheating scandal that has sparked a US criminal investigation and worldwide legal ...Volkswagen admits 11 million vehicles involved in emissions scandal
German auto giant Volkswagen revealed on Tuesday that 11 million of its diesel cars worldwide are equipped with devices that can cheat ...Fiat Chrysler recalls 1.7 mn vehicles, mostly in US
Fiat Chrysler\'s US arm announced Thursday the recall of more than 1.7 million cars and trucks on Thursday for problems including air ...Ashley Madison parent CEO quits after huge infidelity data hack
The chief executive of infidelity website Ashley Madison\'s parent company Avid Life Media has left, just over a week after hackers leaked ...Sweden, Ecuador aim to break deadlock in Assange case
Sweden and Ecuador have agreed to hold talks to break a deadlock over questioning Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, but investigations into three ...Morocco media boss to pay minister defamation damages
The director of Morocco\'s Arabic-language newspaper Al-Akhbar, Rachid Niny, said he was sentenced Monday to pay 400,000 dirhams ($41,000, nearly 37,000 euros) ...World leaders hail Iran nuclear deal
World leaders hailed the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, with Barack Obama envisioning a "new direction" and Vladimir Putin voicing a global ...Saudi-led coalition strike in Yemen kills 25
An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen\'s Shiite rebels and their allies struck a poor residential area in the capital of ...Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata dies
Nintendo\'s chief executive has died of cancer at the age of 55, it said Monday, in an upheaval for the Japanese videogame ...