India’s capital Delhi has ordered all primary schools to cease in-person classes until further notice due to worsening pollution in the sprawling megacity, while 220km away the country’s monument to love, the Taj Mahal, was also obscured by toxic smog. […]
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A transitional council created to restore democratic order in Haiti has fired its interim prime minister Garry Conille and is set to replace him with businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, in a further sign of escalating turmoil in the Caribbean nation.
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The number of North Korean troops in Russia’s Kursk region has risen by about 2,000, the Pentagon said on Monday, bringing the total in the area bordering Ukraine to some 10,000. “We think that the total number of DPRK forces
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US Vice-President Kamala Harris told a Michigan church on Sunday that God offers America a “divine plan strong enough to heal division”, while Donald Trump gave a profane and conspiracy-laden speech in which he mused about reporters being shot and
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Mexico’s navy has said it arrested 23 people in its largest-ever drugs bust, seizing over eight tonnes of illicit cargo in an operation off the country’s south-western Pacific coast. “Navy personnel seized 8,361 kilograms of illicit cargo, which represents the
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British singer Liam Payne, a former member of the bestselling pop group One Direction, died Wednesday aged 31 after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentine police said. “Liam James Payne, composer and guitarist, former
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India said Monday it was withdrawing its envoy to Canada because Ottawa was investigating him and other diplomats as “persons of interest”, after the killing last year of Sikh separatist leader and Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar. “We have no
Hurricane Milton surged on Monday into a monster Category 5 storm with 180mph (290km/h) winds in the Gulf of Mexico, and is forecast to remain a dangerous major hurricane ahead of landfall on Florida’s Gulf coast. “Milton is a potentially
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The Israeli army on Saturday night announced a new call for residents to evacuate from Beirut’s southern suburbs, as it continued to target Hezbollah positions in the Lebanese capital. “For your safety and that of your family members, you must
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Mexico’s senate has given final approval to a sweeping overhaul of the judiciary, clearing the biggest hurdle for a controversial constitutional revision that will make all judges stand for election, a change that critics fear will politicise the judicial branch
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