Carmakers chose to cheat to sell cars rather than comply with emissions law, ‘dieselgate’ trial told
Mercedes, Ford, Renault, Nissan and Peugeot/Citroën face group action in which damages could exceed £6bn
Car manufacturers decided they would rather cheat to prioritise “customer convenience” and sell cars than comply with the law on deadly pollutants, the first day of the largest group action trial in English legal history has been told.
More than a decade after the original “dieselgate” scandal broke, lawyers representing 1.6 million diesel car owners in the UK argue that manufacturers deliberately installed software to rig emissions tests.
Continue reading...Trump Speaks at Egypt Peace Summit; Living Israeli Hostages Freed: Israel-Gaza Live Updates – The Wall Street Journal
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Trump Speaks at Egypt Peace Summit; Living Israeli Hostages Freed: Israel-Gaza Live Updates – The Wall Street Journal
- Trump Speaks at Egypt Peace Summit; Living Israeli Hostages Freed: Israel-Gaza Live Updates The Wall Street Journal
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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy ordered to go to jail next week
Sarkozy must go to La Santé prison in Paris after conviction over scheme to obtain election funds from Gaddafi regime
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been ordered to go to jail in Paris next week after a court last month sentenced him to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Sarkozy, who was the rightwing president of France between 2007 and 2012, was summoned to meet state prosecutors on Monday. They told him he must present himself at the entrance of La Santé prison in the south of Paris on 21 October to begin his sentence.
Continue reading...Zelenskyy to meet Trump in DC as Ukraine seeks defence, energy support
Trump-Xi meeting still on despite trade tensions, says US’s Bessent
Vodafone outage: thousands of broadband and mobile users report problems
Company apologises and says network ‘recovering’ after many customers say there were unable to access services
Tens of thousands of Vodafone customers in the UK have reported they could not access services including the internet and making mobile phone calls.
Consumers started reporting problems on the website of the outage monitor Downdetector from about 3pm on Monday.
Continue reading...Majority of special education staff in US education department laid off – report
Layoffs ‘decimating’ office responsible for protecting rights of infants, children and youth with disabilities, says worker
The majority of staff in the education department handling special education has been laid off, according to multiple reports.
Friday’s total of 466 layoffs across the education department also impacted the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, which oversees programs that support millions of children and adults with disabilities nationwide, according to sources speaking to various outlets.
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China’s Temu more than doubles EU profits to nearly $120m despite having only eight staff
Online marketplace paid just $18m in corporation tax, leading campaigners to call for government action
The Chinese online marketplace Temu’s EU operations more than doubled pre-tax profits last year to just below $120m (£90m) despite employing just eight people, accounts show.
They rose 171% in the 12 months to December 2024 compared with the $44.1m the year before, as shoppers snapped up its low-cost goods, which are widely promoted on social media.
Continue reading...Plane crashes on to Massachusetts highway and kills two people on board
Blazing debris on road amid rain and wind, with one person on ground hurt and no known survivors found on plane
A small plane crashed along a major highway in south-eastern Massachusetts early on Monday amid rain and strong winds, killing both people on board and wounding another person on the ground, authorities said.
In videos taken by people in passing vehicles, smoke could be seen billowing up above Interstate 195 from scattered, blazing debris. The highway was closed in both directions near the crash site in Dartmouth, a town about 50 miles (80km) miles south of Boston, the state department of transportation said.
Continue reading...‘Indescribable happiness’ as detainees return to Gaza
‘You’re my life, my hero’: Hostages reunite with families after two years
Israel receives 4 hostages’ bodies from Red Cross; demands Hamas hand over the other 24 – The Times of Israel
Trump urges Israeli president to pardon Netanyahu of corruption charges
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