Bloomberg The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating some 3 million US vehicles made by Hyundai Motor Co and Kia Motors Corp. following thousands of complaints that the vehicles went up in flames even without being involved in a crash. NHTSA tallied more than 3,000 complaints about the Hyundai and Kia vehicles that drivers lodged with the agency ...

Bloomberg Battered by more than a month of protests, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said he would step down before the end of his fourth term on April 28, but suggested he would still craft the foundations of the transition to come. The announcement appeared aimed at avoiding what could be a military-sanctioned, and embarrassing, constitutional push to have him declared ...

Bloomberg Thailand’s army chief slammed exiled former leader Thaksin Shinawatra in a rare briefing following a disputed election, a further sign that his allies will struggle to form a government. “He never admits to his crime,” Apirat Kongsompong told foreign media organisations in Bangkok. “If someone has money and is powerful, does that mean you can never go to jail? ...