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  Volkswagen pins renewed fortunes on electrification, digitalization

  Volkswagen unveiled its China electrification plan and new logo on Thursday in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, as it makes major global efforts to herald a new era.A visitor examines Volkswagens electric concept car ID Buggy on Thursday in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. (Photo: China Daily)"Over the last two years, we have worked hard at reinventing our brand. New Volkswagen stands for a new generation of cars. They are digital devices on wheels, and fully electric," said Stephan Woellenstein, CEO of Volkswagen Group China.He said the Volkswagen brand will localize 10 purely electric models of its ID family in China with its two joint ventures FAW-Volkswagen and SAIC Volkswagen by 2023, in addition to 10 new energy versions of models in its current portfolio by 2020.The ID was Volkswagens first electric concept, debuting at the Paris auto show in September 2016, one year after the companys emissions scandal broke in the United States.The company said the production version is the ID 3, shown at this years Frankfurt auto show in September, which will be produced at SAIC Volkswagens Anting plant in Shanghai, but it did not give a schedule.Both SAIC Volkswagen and FAW-Volkswagen are building production lines that feature Volkswagens MEB platform dedicated to electric vehicles. Together they will have a combined annual production capacity of 600,000 vehicles.Woellenstein said local production of the first MEB-based vehicle, the ID Chuxian SUV, which in Chinese means "first encounter", will start in a year.That is roughly when the Chinese government will fully withdraw the subsidies that have been available for Chinese-branded new energy vehicles since 2009 and helped stimulate the growth of the sector in the worlds largest car market.Volkswagen wants to become the dominant player in Chinas new energy sector as it has in its gasoline vehicle segment.Statistics show that Volkswagen sold 2.24 million vehicles in th...

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  Kuwait to host CERN exhibition

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  High tide: French police warn cocaine fortune hunters off beaches

  People on the beach Monday at Capbreton, southwestern France, where packages of cocaine have been found in recent days. (Photo: AFP)French authorities have closed beaches in southwest France as packages of cocaine and other drugs continue to wash up daily along the Atlantic coast, with nearly 900 kilograms discovered since mid-October, a prosecutor said Tuesday.Officials say the cocaine is extremely pure at some 83 percent, warning people who find the packages not to touch them but to warn the police.That has not stopped some from trying to get their hands on the drugs, whose street value would be in the millions of euros, prompting police to close beaches and start carrying out patrols.On Monday, a 17-year-old was caught with five kilos of cocaine at Lacanau, a closed-off surfing beach near the southwestern city of Bordeaux -- he had come from Toulouse, a three-hour drive away.A half-dozen other beaches in the area have been closed as well, with police stopping walkers for searches and also checking cars leaving nearby parking lots.A police helicopter was also being used along the 125-kilometre stretch between Cap Ferret and Soulac-sur-Mer, which includes the Lacanau beach.A woman who gave her name as Martine failed to notice the closure signs at the Porge beach on Monday when officers told her and a friend to leave."When we turned around we saw a package next to the water," she said, saying they alerted the police, who estimated it weighed some four kilos before sealing it in a plastic bag."It would have been tempting to take it, but were honest!" she told AFP.- Very dangerous -"Weve recovered 872 kilos," or 1,920 pounds, Philippe Astruc, the prosecutor in the western city of Rennes, where officials are coordinating the searches, told AFP in a statement.It was a sharp jump from just two days ago when 763 kilos were reported."Intense surveillance has been set up by different services, notably the customs agency...