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South Korea tells some BMW owners to park cars on fire risk

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Bloomberg South Korea’s government will tell owners of some BMW AG cars in the country to keep the vehicles off the roads until the German carmaker completes safety checks to address a defect after reports of nearly 40 cases of fire this year alone. After announcing a recall of more than 106,000 BMW cars in the country, the transport ministry ...

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Lula’s party launches all-out push for his Brazil candidacy

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Bloomberg His supporters are descending on Brazil’s capital by the busloads, his lawyers wage legal battles, and his party stages hunger strikes, sit-ins, and news conferences in defense of his right to bid for the country’s top job. In public, allies of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are pulling out all the stops to get the imprisoned leftist ...

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UK police treating Parliament car crash as terrorist incident

Bloomberg UK police launched a counter-terrorism inquiry after a car crashed into barriers outside Parliament on Tuesday. Three people were injured in the incident, which bears similarities to a deadly attack last year. The driver, a man in his late 20s, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of terrorist offenses, the Metropolitan Police said. Though he has not yet ...

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