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  The crisis of the German car manufacturer Volkswagen has deepened further with a revelationthat it had understated the fuel consumption of 800,000 cars produced in Europe. An internalinvestigation also revealed what the company called inconsistency in carbon dioxide emission'stest. VW had previously acknowledged problems in 11 million vehicles with diesel engines.

  US Safety regulators have posted a fine of up to 200 million dollars on the Japanese airbagmanufacturer Takata. The carried-up problem linked to at least 7 deaths. The US transportsecretary Anthony Foxx said the company's attitude have turned a serious problem into acrisis. For years, Takata has built and sold defective inflators.It refused to acknowledge

  that they were defected. It provide incomplete, inaccurate and misleading information toNHTSA, to the companies using its inflators and to the public. This failures put millions ofAmericans at risk.

  The organizer of the 2014 world cup in Brazil has pleaded not guilty to accepting bribes worthmillions of dollars. Jose Maria Marin appeared in a court in New York after being extradited fromSwitzerland. Nick Bryan reports. Jose Maria Marin was among seven FIFA officials arrested inMay in a dawn raid of a hotel in Zurich. Hours after arriving on America soil, the formerfootballer turned politician appeared in a Brooklyn federal court house where he struggled tostand up during his brief hearing. Through interpreter he pleaded not guilty to the chargesagainst him. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison.

  More than 20,000 people have attended a demonstration in the Romanian capital Bucharestcalling that the country's prime minister to resign over a night club fire which killed 32 peopleon Friday. Many protestors waved national flags with holes in them as symbol of therevolution which toppled Nicolae Ceausescu 25 years ago. World news from the BBC.

  The Egyptian authority expressed doubts that the Russian plane which crashed in the SinaiPeninsula on Saturday broke up in mid air. The civil aviation ministry official said there was noevidence to substantiate a Russian claim that the aircraft has disintegrated at the height of30,000 feet. In another development, US officials told American television networks that one oftheir military satellites had detected a heat flash at the time it's a crash.

  The US government says it will continue its review of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipelinedespite a request for pause from the company behind a controversial project. On Monday,TransCanada said it has asked for suspension while it negotiates with Nebraska over thepipeline's route. The Obama adminstration is widely expected to reject the pipeline. The WhiteHouse pre-secretary Josh Earnest said president Obama's final decision would be based solelyon facts. There is no doubt that this debate has been heavily influenced by politics and thepresident is doing his best to try to shield the actual process that will consider the naret of theproject from those politics, as I would stipulate that it's a difficult challenge but it's one thatthe president committed to.

  The British oil company Soco has announced that it's given up the exploration license for anarea in the democratic republic of Congo's the Virunga National Park. Soco gave no reason forits decision but it suspended exploration last year in the area home to the endangeredMountain Gorilla following an environmental protest.

  11,000 crocodiles that had gone unfed for almost a month in Honduras becaue their ownershad their assets frozen will finally receive some food. More than 10,000 kilograms of chicken and2000 kilos of cow entrails have been donated to the farm where they are kept. The animals areowned by the Rosenthal family. US investigators accused three members of the family oflaundrying money for drug traffiking. BBC news.

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