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France has been part of the US-led coalition bombarding IS in Iraq since September 2014, and has carried out 215 out of almost 4,500 strikes there, according to French and USA figures. “We are trying to establish a few kind of coordinated framework”, Putin said in an...

Reuters reported last Thursday that VW would fire top brand officials as it tries to recoup from the embarrassment. The economy and transport minister of VW’s home state, Lower-Saxony – which owns about 20pc of VW – said those responsible for allowing the...

In 1987, the automaker was forced to recall more than 250,000 cars because they accelerated unexpectedly. The investigation targets accusations of fraud due to the sale of vehicles with pollution control cheating software, the statement added.

Russia’s sudden military build-up this month in support of Assad and a refugee crisis that has spilled over from the region into Europe have lent new urgency to attempts to resolve the Syria conflict.

The German automaker admitted last week that it used special software to fool USA emissions tests for its diesel vehicles.

The software at the center of Volkswagen’s emissions scandal in the US was built into the automaker’s cars in Europe as well, Germany said Thursday, though it isn’t yet clear if it helped cheat tests as it did in the U.S. Chris Grundler, director of the Office...

“In the past we used to export oil; now we export security”, Rouhani said. The White House said it would focus on Ukraine, where the two countries remain at loggerheads over Russian support for pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels in Ukraine’s east, and getting Moscow...

Labelling the manipulation of data as “unacceptable” and “illegal”, Alexander Dobrindt said vehicles with 1.2 litre engines may also have been involved in the fraud.

The software in the cars’ engine-control computers checked the speed, steering wheel position, air pressure and other factors to determine when dynamometer tests were under way.

The heads of the research and development teams for VW, Audi and Porsche have been temporarily kicked out of the company until the final details of the controversy have been cleaned up. But experts say it’s likely to cost much more as VW tries to comply with USA clean air...

The EPA sent letters to automakers on Friday to warn them that it will take new steps to prevent emissions test cheating.

MILAN/LONDON Sept 25 (Reuters) – European shares were higher on Friday, rebounding after testing 2015 lows in the previous session, as concern over the global economy eased and a sell-off of auto stocks began to slow.

Last Friday, the EPA issued a citation to Volkswagen for equipping almost 500,000 diesel-powered cars sold since 2009 with software that can detect when the vehicle is undergoing federal testing for smog-forming emissions.

Those events are what is causing massive turmoil with Volkswagen, the disclosure that 11 million diesel vehicles have software embedded in them that allow them to beat emissions certification tests.

Switzerland has banned the sale of Volkswagen cars caught up in the emissions scandal.