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Toyota recalling Prius in Japan for brakes - YAHOO!
TOKYO – Toyota said Tuesday it is recalling 170,000 Prius hybrid cars in Japan for braking problems and will soon disclose details of its global plans for a fix. The automaker will hold a news conference at its Tokyo office Tuesday to outline ...

Toyota recalling Priuses in Japan - Toronto Star
TOKYO–Toyota is recalling about 170,000 Prius hybrid cars in Japan for braking problems and will soon disclose its global plans for a fix as the automaker scrambles to repair damage to its reputation from a spate of safety problems. Toyota's ...

In Toyota Mess, Lesson for Japan - Gainesville Sun
TOKYO — When Toyota’s president, Akio Toyoda, apologized for the recalls that have marred Toyota’s reputation, he talked not just about his company’s fate, but also his nation’s. “I hope to return Toyota to profit and contribute to the ...

Japan Airlines rejects Delta, stays with American - San Francisco Chronicle
Japan Airlines, wooed for months by Delta Air Lines with promises of cash and a broad global network, spurned the world's biggest carrier and opted to keep its alliance with American Airlines. The Japanese carrier said in a statement Tuesday it will ...

Cray Adds New Customers in Japan, Europe and the United States for Its ... - MSN Money
As momentum builds for its line of midrange supercomputing systems, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced that new customers in Japan, Europe and the United States have purchased midrange supercomputing systems from ...

Sekisui Fuller Standardises on SuccessFactors Business Execution ... - Stockhouse
Today SuccessFactors, Inc. (Nasdaq: SFSF) announced that Sekisui Fuller Limited, the largest industrial adhesive business in Japan, has selected the SuccessFactors Business Execution Software (BizX) Suite to develop its internal talent and cascade ...

Japan's KDDI to buy two US mobile operators serving immigrants - TMCnet
(M&A Navigator Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Japanese telecomms group KDDI Corp (TYO:9433) said Tuesday it would acquire two US mobile operators targeting immigrants for about JPY3.7bn (USD41m/EUR30m) in an effort to enter the fast-growing market for ...

Japan Airlines rejects Delta, will keep alliance with American ... - Denton Record-Chronicle
TOKYO -- Japan Airlines, wooed for months by Delta Air Lines with promises of cash and a broad global network, spurned the world's biggest carrier and opted to keep its alliance with American Airlines. The Japanese carrier said Tuesday it will ...

Japan Air to Boost American Ties, Rebuffing Delta (Update2) - Bloomberg
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Japan Airlines Corp. , Asia’s largest carrier by sales, intends to increase cooperation with American Airlines on routes across the Pacific after rebuffing an alliance offer from Delta Air Lines Inc. JAL and AMR Corp.’s ...

ON24, ITmedia Announce HP Partner Event in Japan - Market Wire
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - February 9, 2010) - ON24, Inc. , the global leader in webcasting and virtual event solutions, announced today that its new strategic partner in Japan, Softbank Group's ITmedia, Inc., will be hosting the first virtual ...

Afghan avalanches kill at least 28, strand 1,500

An Afghan army soldier carries a child during an evacuation from the avalanche which struck the Salang Pass, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Avalanches on a mountain pass north of Kabul have killed at least 28 people, with another 1,500 stranded in their vehicles on snow-blocked roads, Afghan officials said Tuesday.




NATO: Afghans to play big role in offensive

British and Afghan soldiers practice drills at Military Operating Base Shorabak in Helmand, Afghanistan, on Monday, in preparatoin for a major offensive that also will include thousands of U.S. troops. Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join U.S. and NATO troops in an offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any joint operation of the Afghan war.




Haiti awash in Christian aid, evangelism

Members of Idaho-based charity called New Life Children's Refuge are shown at a police station in Port-au-Prince on Jan. 31. The drama on the sidelines of Haiti's earthquake, in which 10 American missionaries were arrested trying to take children out of the country, was a fiasco waiting to happen. By Kari Huus.




Recovery effort revives China’s quake zone

A car drives in a town destroyed from the 2008 earthquake in Wenchuan, China. Just 22 months from the 7.9-magnitude quake struck, scarred mountain sides are often the only physical indication of the devastation that left nearly 90,000 dead or missing and another 5 million homeless. China is showing off the results of its massive drive to rebuild its own quake zone  22 months after a 7.9-magnitude temblor struck and devastated the region and left at least 90,000 dead.




World Blog: Did 'pandering' cost U.S. lives at Afghan base?
Why did eight American soldiers die defending an remote outpost the U.S. military no longer wanted to hold? NBC News' Richard Engel reports from Kabul.

N. Korea’s Kim reiterates disarmament pledge
China's Xinhua News Agency says that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has reiterated his country's promise to achieve a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

Report: Iran begins controversial nuke process

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, is seen visiting the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles south of the capital Tehran, on April 8, 2008.Iran's state TV said the country started enriching its uranium to a higher level of 20 percent, over the objections of the international community.




Mexico arrests 2 reputed leaders of drug gang
Mexican authorities on Monday arrested two suspected leaders of a brutal drug trafficking gang that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years, a U.S. official said.

Spring rains threaten Haitian survivors

Survivors of Haiti's earthquake in a makeshift tent at the Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince on Feb. 2. Officials are now worried about the coming of deadly spring rains.In Haiti's devastated capital city, early spring rains threaten to cause landslides and bring about health problems in the makeshift camps where more than 500,000 people are living.




Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons

In this photo released by the Institute of Cetacean Research of Japan, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's ship the Bob Barker, right, and the Japanese whaling ship Yushin Maru No.3 collide in the waters of Antarctica Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. It was the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between conservationists and the whaling fleet. (AP Photo/Institute of Cetacean Research) ** MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY **Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue.



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