Daimler has picked the head of its North American trucks division to run group-wide truck operations, it said on Monday, avoiding a lengthy search for a successor to departed chief Wolfgang Bernhard. Daimler AG sign is pictured at the IAA truck show in Hanover, Germany, September 22, 2016.
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Ap Photos: a selection of pictures from the past week
Luisa Bodem kicks up sand as she competes in the women’s long jump event at the German indoor athletics in Leipzig, Germany, on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. A cow is prepared for a photograph in front a pastoral backdrop in Verden, Germany, on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017.
Prosecutors say not investigating VW supervisory board members
Feb 9 German prosecutors said they were not investigating the German state of Lower Saxony’s premier Stephan Weil or other members of Volkswagen’s supervisory board in connection with an emissions scandal. “Beyond that, no information will be provided on the number, names or possible testimony of witnesses… so as not to put further investigation at risk,” the prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig near VW’s Wolfsburg headquarters said in an e-mailed statement on Thursday.
German prosecutors widen Volkswagen emissions probe
In this Jan. 19, 2017 file picture Martin Winterkorn, former CEO of the German car manufacturer Volkswagen, arrives for a questioning at an investigation committee of the German federal parliament in Berlin, German. Prosecutors in Germany say Friday Jan. 27, 2017 they have sufficient evidence to indicate that former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn knew of his company’s emissions cheating software earlier than he claims.
After Trump pledges ‘America First,’ the world responds with…
If the credo of the new U.S. president is “America First,” as Donald Trump emphatically declared Friday in his strikingly nationalistic inaugural address, then where does that leave the rest of the world? That’s what people around the globe – from Asia to the Middle East to Latin America – were left to wonder after watching Trump use the opening minutes of his presidency to double down on campaign pledges to end what he sees as misguided efforts to help other countries at the expense of U.S. interests. After more than 70 years of vigorous political, diplomatic, economic and military engagement to promote pax-Americana, Trump’s words suggested to international observers a far more isolationist and protectionist path ahead.