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November 15, 2024
North Korea's Kim Jong-un pushes for speeding up mass production of exploding drones
NEW DELHI — All primary schools in Delhi will close due to worsening air pollution, officials have announced.In a post on X, the Indian capital's chief minister, Atishi Marlena Singh, said classes will move online until further notice due to a thick smog that has enveloped the city.Delhi and nearby cities are experiencing pollution levels that are deemed hazardous to people's health. On Thursday, fine particulate matter in the air was more than 50 times what is considered safe by the World Health Organization (WHO).Delhi and northern states annually face smog during the winter due to a confluence of dropping temperatures, smoke, dust, low wind speeds, vehicle emissions and crop stubble burning.According to IQAir, a Swiss-based Air Quality Index (AQI) monitoring group, Delhi had...
November 15, 2024
Delhi shuts all primary schools as hazardous smog worsens
November 15, 2024
Left-leaning leader's coalition claims landslide victory in Sri Lanka elections
November 14, 2024
Maori haka in NZ parliament to protest at bill to reinterpret founding treaty
November 14, 2024
Knife attack on Indian doctor renews safety fears
November 14, 2024
Pop hit APT too distracting for South Korea's exam-stressed students
BUSAN — From his wheelchair, Michael Northey watches quietly over his father’s grave, and lays a flower for the very first time.“This is the closest I’ve been to him in 70 years, which is ridiculous,” he jokes poignantly.Born into a poor family in the backstreets of Portsmouth, Michael was still a baby when his father, the youngest of 13 children, left to fight in the Korean War. He was killed in action, his body never identified.For decades, it lay in an unmarked grave in the UN cemetery in Busan, on Korea’s south coast, adorned with the plaque ‘Member of the British Army, known unto God’.Now it bears his name – Sergeant D. Northey, died 24 April 1951, age 23.Sergeant Northey, along with three others, are the first unknown British soldiers killed in the Korean War to be...
November 14, 2024
Families reunite with bodies of missing British soldiers 70 years on
November 14, 2024
Snap election poses test for new Sri Lankan leader
November 13, 2024
Delhi chokes as air pollution turns 'severe'
November 13, 2024
India's top court bans 'bulldozer justice'
