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| Porsche, more Audi models pulled into VW emissions scandal | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 1:38 AM | |
|  By Patrick Rucker and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Volkswagen used devices to cheat air pollution tests in diesel luxury vehicles, U.S. environmental regulators said on Monday, in a new blow to the automaker already reeling from similar allegations regarding millions of smaller diesel engines. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it is now looking at 3.0-liter V6 diesel engines used mostly in larger, more expensive models like the Porsche Cayenne sport utility vehicle in addition to engines on Jettas, Passats and other mass-market models whose test-deceiving software were initially targeted by the agency in mid-September. Volkswagen in a response Monday took issue with the EPA's findings, saying that "no software has been installed" in its 3.0-liter V6 diesel engines "to alter emissions characteristics in a forbidden manner." VW made similar denials for more than a year to U.S. regulators before admitting to cheating on the four-cylinder diesels.
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| Justin Bieber taken off formal probation in egg-pelting case | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 1:26 AM | |
|  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Canadian pop star Justin Bieber was taken off formal probation by a U.S. judge on Monday after he was found guilty of vandalism last year for throwing eggs at a neighbour's house. Bieber, 21, did not attend the hearing in which Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Andrea Thompson changed the status of his probation to informal after receiving good reports on his two-year probation sentence, according to court documents. The "Boyfriend" singer pleaded no contest to misdemeanour vandalism in July 2014 after pelting eggs at a neighbour's home in an upscale Calabasas, California neighbourhood.
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| No coherent strategy for Syria air strikes, UK lawmakers say | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:36 AM | |
| | By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should not extend its air strikes against Islamic State fighters into Syria until there is a clear strategy to defeat the militants, a committee of British lawmakers said, dealing a blow to Prime Minister David Cameron. Cameron has said he wants to do more to tackle Islamic State and hopes to seek parliamentary approval to carry out attacks in Syria. Britain is already involved in bombing IS targets in Iraq and has provided allies with surveillance over Syria. |
| Google aims to begin drone package deliveries in 2017 | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:33 AM | |
|  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet giant Alphabet Inc , the new holding company for Google, expects to begin delivering packages to consumers via drones sometime in 2017, the executive in charge of its drone effort said on Monday. David Vos, the leader for Alphabet's Project Wing, said his company is in talks with the Federal Aviation Administration and other stakeholders about setting up an air traffic control system for drones that would use cellular and Internet technology to coordinate unmanned aerial vehicle flights at altitudes under 500 feet (152 meters).
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| Drug cartel debt collector sentenced to life for California murders | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:13 AM | |
| | A self-styled debt collector for a Mexican drug cartel, who admitted to killing dozens of people over more than three decades, was sentenced on Monday to life in prison without parole for nine murders in California, officials said. Jose Manuel Martinez, who accepted a plea deal in October that spared him the death penalty, was sentenced in a court in Tulare County, located some 250 miles (400 km) southeast of San Francisco, according to Stuart Anderson, a spokesman for the county's district attorney. |
| South Africa asks appeal court to convict Pistorius of murder | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:12 AM | |
|  By Stella Mapenzauswa BLOEMFONTEIN (Reuters) - South African paralympian Oscar Pistorius, freed on parole last month after serving a fifth of his prison term for killing his girlfriend, faces years more in jail if state lawyers can get his conviction scaled up to murder from culpable homicide. Prosecutors will argue before the Supreme Court that a high court judge was wrong to let Pistorius off the more serious charge after he fired four shots through a door on Valentine's Day 2013, killing Reeva Steenkamp. The 28-year-old track star will not be present at the one-day hearing in Bloemfontein, 400 km (250 miles) southwest of Johannesburg, his lawyer Barry Roux told Reuters.
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| Special Report - U.S. places weak limits on messaging by foreign governments | |  By John Shiffman and Koh Gui Qing WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under the First Amendment, the U.S. Constitution generally prevents the federal government from censoring any media. A law administered by the FCC, the Communications Act, bans foreign governments or their representatives from owning a radio license for a U.S. broadcast station. The law, first enacted in 1934, does not apply to cable or satellite outlets, such as Russia's RT or Qatar's Al-Jazeera, or to Internet sites, according to FCC officials.
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| Ex-pro wrestler Snuka pleads not guilty to murdering girlfriend in 1983 | | | By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, a professional wrestling star in the 1980s, pleaded not guilty on Monday to third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the 1983 death of his girlfriend. The 72-year-old Snuka appeared before Judge Kelly Banach in Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas in Allentown, Pennsylvania, according to a spokeswoman for District Attorney James Martin. A native of Fiji who now lives in Camden County, New Jersey, Snuka was charged in September with killing his girlfriend Nancy Argentino, 23, of New York. |
| FCC, Justice Department investigate covert Chinese radio network | |  By John Shiffman and Koh Gui Qing WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department are investigating a California firm whose U.S. radio broadcasts are backed by a subsidiary of the Chinese government, officials said. Both investigations come in response to a Reuters report published on Monday that revealed the existence of the covert radio network, which broadcasts in more than a dozen American cities, including Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Houston and San Francisco.
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| Porsche, more Audi models pulled into Volkswagen emissions scandal | | By Patrick Rucker and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Volkswagen used devices to cheat air pollution tests in diesel luxury vehicles in model years 2014 through 2016, U.S. and California environmental regulators said on Monday, widening their investigation into the carmaker's emissions scandal. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it is now looking at 3.0-liter V6 diesel engines used mostly in larger, more expensive models like the Porsche Cayenne sport utility vehicle in addition to the smaller diesel engines whose test-deceiving software were initially targeted by the agency. The move pulls luxury brands Porsche and Audi deeper into the scandal that has already engulfed the corporate parent Volkswagen AG and its mass-market VW brand.
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| Canada's new PM to move quickly on pledges, faces refugee challenge | |  By Randall Palmer and David Ljunggren TORONTO (Reuters) - Incoming Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will move quickly to implement campaign promises such as overhauling security legislation, sources in his party say, but faces early challenges with pledges on Syrian refugees and climate change. A second party source, who also spoke off the record, said other measures the Liberals would quickly act on include reinstating a mandatory long-form national census that was cancelled by the Conservatives, and naming a commissioner to head an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. Trudeau pledged during the campaign that his first piece of legislation would enact tax cuts for income from C$44,700 ($34,140) to C$89,401 and tax hikes for incomes above C$200,000.
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| Kuwait court sentences five to prison for militant funding | | | A Kuwaiti court sentenced five people to 10-year prison terms on Monday on charges of collecting money for the Islamic State group, the court said, the first verdict of its kind in the conservative Gulf monarchy. The defendants admitting transferring $400,000 to Islamic State, senior Kuwaiti sources said. The United States and other Western countries have criticised Kuwait for what they have described as a permissive approach to militant financing. |
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