Tag Archives: The Straits Times

NEW DELHI (AFP) – New Delhi’s homeless will be given cotton masks to help them survive in the world’s most polluted major city, officials said Monday (Nov 12), although experts said the basic coverings would be useless against deadly smog particles. Each winter the capital of 20 million chokes through haze so extreme that levels of airborne pollutants eclipse safe… Read more »

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (NYTIMES) – More than 28,000 Afghan police officers and soldiers have been killed since 2015, the Afghan President revealed this week, breaking with his government’s long-standing suppression of casualty totals. The admission from President Ashraf Ghani came during a particularly bad week for Afghanistan’s beleaguered government forces, with at least 242 security force members killed from Nov 9… Read more »