[Grammar] Has broken out or broke out

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Susan21

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1. With some particularly bad timing, the scandal has broken out just days before a national holiday celebrating Buddha’s birth.

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2. With some particularly bad timing, the scandal broke out just days before a national holiday celebrating Buddha’s birth.
 
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Welcome to the forums, Susan.:-D

The use of the present perfect tense in #1 tells me that the scandal broke out very recently and #2 that it came to light in the more distant past.

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