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India's government has been encouraging automakers to build cars in India to avoid high import levies of up to 120% and to minimize production costs. Volkswagen, for example, plans to increase sourcing parts locally from 50% currently to 80% in the next two years, according to Joerg Mueller, head...
Read "Indian Car Buyers Snap Up the Nano."
So how did Obama, for all his game-changing intentions, end up inheriting Bush's Iran stalemate? Two key factors have combined to scupper his diplomatic efforts: Iran's domestic political year of living dangerously, and the fact that the new Administration bound its diplomacy to tight deadlines and to...
But regardless of who did what, a primary target in the attacks - Qasim al-Raymi, the al-Qaeda leader who is believed to be behind a 2007 bombing in central Yemen that killed seven Spanish tourists and two Yemenis - is still at large. And reports of a U.S. role, and...
What may be more surreal, however, is the resurgent popularity that Stalin is enjoying at the moment in Russia. Just in time for the 130th anniversary of his birth on Dec. 21, the state-run polling agency VTsIOM released a survey showing that despite the millions of Soviet citizens who...