Detroit
By Tolu Ogunlesi
Lamenting the presence of Nigeria on the US government’s list of “countries of interest” (in the war on terror), Nigerian writer and first African Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka told British journalist Tunku Varadarajan, at the Jaipur Literary Festival in January: “[Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab] did not get radicalized in Nigeria. It happened in England, where he went to university.”
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General Motors announced today that they will be expanding their capabilities for designing and manufacturing electric traction motors, the motors used to propel electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. GM plans to have the first GM-designed and -built electric motors installed in some 2013 vehicles.
El líder del grupo terrorista Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, ha reivindicado a través de una grabación de su voz emitida por el canal de televisión Al Jazeera la responsabilidad del intento de atentado del pasado 25 de diciembre, cuando el nigeriano Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab intentó hacer explotar una bomba en pleno vuelo entre Ámsterdam y Detroit.
Electric vehicles have become a common theme at this year's North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Major manufacturers are unveiling new electric vehicles that aren't simply blue-sky concept car shells. They are designed, engineered and specified throughout, even if they aren't going to arrive on the showroom floor next month.
Electric vehicles have become a common theme at this year's North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Major manufacturers are unveiling new electric vehicles that aren't simply blue-sky concept car shells. They are designed, engineered and specified throughout, even if they aren't going to arrive on the showroom floor next month.
El presidente de EE UU, Barcak Obama ha anunciado este jueves por la noche cambios en los servicios de inteligencia y los sistemas de registro en los aeropuertos para evitar que situaciones como la del atentado fallido de Detroit vuelvan a producirse.
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Washington ha decidido vigilar muy de cerca lo que hace Europa para reforzar la seguridad aeroportuaria.