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An unknown Toyota car covered in preparation for the Chicago Auto Show, February 9, 2010. REUTERS/John Gress

Toyota recalls new Prius in latest safety fix

Tue Feb 9, 4:17 PM

WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - The spiraling crisis at Toyota Motor Corp deepened on Tuesday as the automaker said it would recall thousands of Camry sedans as well as nearly half a million new Prius and other hybrid cars to fix steering and braking problems.

  • Colonel Russell Williams, Wing Commander of Canadian Forces Base Trenton, is pictured in this September 20, 2009 handout photo. Williams has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, Ontario Provincial Police said February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Department of National Defence/Master Corporal Miranda Langguth/Handout
    Canada may expand air commander murder probe Tue Feb 9, 11:39 AM

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian police said on Tuesday they are looking at reopening cold cases of slain women after having laid murder charges against the commanding officer of the country's largest military air base.

  • Ukraine's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko arrives for a news conference in Kiev February 7, 2010. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
    Ukraine's Tymoshenko girds to contest result Tue Feb 9, 2:26 PM

    KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko launched action on Tuesday to call rival Viktor Yanukovich's election into question, ignoring international endorsement of the poll and threatening a lengthy legal battle.

  • A border security soldier of South Korea checks a bus carrying a South Korean delegation at the CIQ (customs, immigration and quarantine) office, just south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won
    North Korea nuclear envoy visits China, talks closer Tue Feb 9, 3:32 PM

    SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea's top nuclear envoy arrived in Beijing on Tuesday as Pyongyang said it was willing to step up talks with China on resuming stalled disarmament-for-aid talks.

  • EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks on during his visit to the 2nd National Festival of Innovation and Prosperity in Tehran February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl
    Iran says nuclear fuel deal "still on the table" 43 minutes ago

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran believes a nuclear fuel exchange with the West is still possible, state television said on Wednesday, a day after the Islamic Republic's expansion of uranium enrichment drew a U.S. warning of more sanctions soon.

  • Over 60 feared dead in Afghan avalanches Tue Feb 9, 10:27 AM

    SALANG PASS, Afghanistan (Reuters) - More than 60 people were feared dead and hundreds still trapped on a treacherous mountain pass in Afghanistan on Tuesday after a series of avalanches smashed into an alpine tunnel.

  • Google co-founder Sergey Brin participates in a panel discussion in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. Googe Inc unveiled Google 'buzz,' injecting its social networking features into its popular Web email product as the world's No. 1 search engine seeks to fend off competition from Facebook and Twitter. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
    Google Gmail tweak challenges Facebook, Twitter Tue Feb 9, 9:05 PM

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Google Inc is tapping its huge network of Gmail users and Web surfers to create a Buzz that it hopes will help it catch up with online social networking leaders Facebook and Twitter.

  • A view of the White House as snow begins to fall in Washington, February 9, 2010. The second major snowstorm in less than a week hit the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday, with predictions of 12 inches (30.5 cm) or more stretching from Washington, D.C., to New York City, forcing schools to close and the U.S. Congress to sharply curtail legislative action. REUTERS/Larry Downing
    Second big snowstorm slams East Coast 1 hour, 53 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The second major snowstorm in less than a week slammed the East Coast from Washington to New York on Tuesday, forcing the United Nations to close and Congress to curtail legislative action.

  • Iranian demonstrators tear down a street sign named 'Rome', during a demonstration outside the Italian embassy in Tehran February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Fars News/Meghdad Madadi
    Italy says Iranian militia attacked its embassy Tue Feb 9, 1:21 PM

    ROME (Reuters) - Italy said dozens of members of Iran's hardline religious Basij militia had tried to attack its embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, but Iranian media described the incident as a student protest and did not mention any violence.

  • Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky in London, April 28, 2008. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
    Russian tycoon says ex-spy murder claim "outrageous" Tue Feb 9, 10:52 AM

    LONDON (Reuters) - Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky said Tuesday it was outrageous to claim he was responsible for the death of his friend Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who was murdered in London in 2006.