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TOKYO – Toyota has no interest in blocking or joining the proposed partnership between General Motors (GM) and the Renault-Nissan alliance, the Japanese automaker’s president said Thursday. The remarks from Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) President Katsuaki Watanabe come at a time when GM is in talks about a possible partnership …

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is moving ahead with scheduled troop deployments to Iraq next month as the U.S. military struggles to gain control of the escalating violence in Baghdad, according to a senior defense official. The decision caps weeks of internal discussions about whether to delay or cancel the deployment …

LOS ANGELES – Jan Murray, one of the fabled generation of comics who rose from the Catskills to prime time TV, tickling fans of the 1950s game show “Treasure Hunt,” has died. He was 89. Murray, who appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows, died Sunday at his home …