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...they do. "We have to strengthen quality control," says Shinichi Sasaki, executive vice president for quality. It's a startling admission from a company that made reliability its quest. Toyota will fix its manufacturing problem. Restoring its reputation is going to take a lot longer...
...European west, has pledged to steer Ukraine into the European Union within five years, while Yanukovych has recast himself as a moderate who also wants to forge closer ties with the E.U. Tymoshenko has presented a clearer agenda toward a European future and says Yanukovych will take the country back to the "Stone Age," but critics question whether she can push through unpopular but sorely needed reforms...
...Sinai, it may not even take a war to spark the fuse. Hamzawy says the past two years have seen a spike in social unrest in north Sinai, where a dense network of permanent police checkpoints create an atmosphere of occupation. Rights groups say Bedouin are routinely harassed and arrested at random. Torture in Egyptian prisons is rampant, and some Bedouin report stories of state security abducting their wives and children in an effort to coerce wanted men to come forward...
...weeks after a devastating earthquake in Haiti killed hundreds of thousands of people, 10 members of a U.S. church group were detained by Haitian authorities for attempting to illegally take 33 children out of the country. The Americans maintained that they were merely trying to rescue the children from Haiti's dangerous streets and take them to an orphanage they were building in the Dominican Republic. "God wanted us to come here to help children, we are convinced of that," said Laura Silsby, a member of the group. "Our hearts were in the right place...
...Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive lashed out at the group as "kidnappers" who "knew what they were doing was wrong," although he later conceded the group might have been misguided. Still, authorities are dubious about the Americans' qualifications, and are certain that the group did not have permission to take the children out of the country. It also appears that many of the children were not orphans at all, but were placed in the care of the U.S. church group after their families were promised they would have a better life...