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| GM must face suit claiming it covered up ignition-switch defect |
| Monday, August 11, 2014 2:53 AM | |
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 By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Co has lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the automaker of concealing critical evidence about a faulty ignition switch linked to the death of a Georgia woman in 2010. During a hearing on Saturday, Cobb County State Court Judge Kathryn Tanksley denied GM's motion to dismiss the new lawsuit filed in May by the family of Brooke Melton, according to a statement from the company. Melton died in March 2010 when the ignition switch on her 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt slipped into accessory mode and the car collided with another vehicle, according to the suit. Ken and Beth Melton, her parents, had previously sued the company in 2011 and settled in September 2013 for a reported $5 million.
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| Maliki defiant as his special forces deploy in Baghdad |
| Monday, August 11, 2014 2:45 AM | |
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 By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Special forces loyal to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki were deployed in strategic areas of Baghdad on Sunday night after he delivered a tough speech indicating he would not cave in to pressure to drop a bid for a third term, police sources said. Pro-Maliki Shi'ite militias stepped up patrols in the capital, police said. An eyewitness said a tank was stationed at the entrance to Baghdad's Green Zone, which houses government buildings. In a speech on state television, Maliki accused Iraq's Kurdish President Fouad Masoum of violating the constitution by missing a deadline for him to ask the biggest political bloc to nominate a prime minister and form a government.
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| Pakistani police register murder case against dissident cleric |
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 By Mubasher Bukhari and Asim Tanveer LAHORE/MULTAN Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police registered a murder case on Sunday against an anti-government cleric after three policemen were killed in clashes with his supporters ahead of a demonstration. The cleric, Tahir ul-Qadri, has called for protests on Sunday, saying he wants to bring down the government by the end of the month because it is corrupt. Another protest, led by opposition politician Imran Khan, is due in the capital on Thursday. The protests have unnerved the civilian government and raised fears of tension with the military.
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| Turks vote for president as Erdogan envisages "new Turkey" |
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 By Daren Butler and Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turks voted in their country's first presidential election on Sunday with Tayyip Erdogan poised to win and fulfil his dream of what he calls a "new Turkey" and what his opponents say will be an increasingly authoritarian nation. A victory for Erdogan would seal his place in history after more than a decade as prime minister in which Turkey has emerged as a regional economic power, riding a wave of religiously conservative support to transform the secular republic founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923. In a tea house in the working-class Istanbul district of Tophane, men watching election coverage on television praised Erdogan as a pious man of the people who had boosted Turkey's status both economically and on the international stage.
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| Radical threat unites Lebanese and strange allies behind army |
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| By Tom Perry and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - Beating back an incursion by Islamists from Syria, Lebanon's poorly armed military has paid a high price - 36 of its soldiers have been killed or captured. At odds about so much, including just who their enemies are, leaders from across Lebanon's sectarian divide have shown rare unity by agreeing they have a common foe in the Islamic State - the radical Islamist group that is dismembering Iraq and Syria. With the Lebanese army part of a regional battle against the Sunni radicals, statements of support have come from an unlikely array of countries including Syria and Saudi Arabia, the United States and Iran. As Syria and Iraq have fragmented with the stunning advance of Islamic State fighters - an offshoot of al-Qaeda - protecting Lebanon from renewed instability is a concern shared by all. |
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