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‘Burning’: life under the world’s dirtiest skies
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‘Burning’: life under the world’s dirtiest skies
Loni, one of five areas in the Delhi metropolitan region, features among the world’s most polluted in an annual list by Swiss monitoring firm IQAir.
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Fire pollution killed 3,560 people in Indonesia in September, report says
The same month, about 57.8 million people in Indonesia were inhaling unhealthy to hazardous air, according to a new study.
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Indonesia rain set to ease toxic haze in Singapore and Malaysia
The choking haze from Indonesia’s worst fire season in years has cloaked local towns and drifted across neighboring countries for weeks.
Volunteers carry portable oxygen tanks through dense haze to deliver medical assistance to affected residents in the city of Palangkaraya, Indonesia, on Thursday.
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Oct 27, 2026
Borneo struggles to breathe as wildfires fill the air with toxic smog
More than 300,000 people in seven provinces were laid low by respiratory tract infections from August to October, Indonesia’s health ministry says.
Nadia Akter Manna and Humayun Rashid look at a dress belonging to their 9-month-old daughter, Labiba Akter, who died during a recent deadly measles outbreak, in Sunamganj, Bangladesh.
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Oct 20, 2026
Bangladesh battle against measles a ‘real warning’ to other nations
By Ruma Paul, Jennifer Rigby and Sam Jahan
So far, 1,147 people have died of the highly contagious disease, with 94% of reported deaths among children under five years old, the WHO said.
Motorists are pictured on the road to the Central Business District in Singapore on Friday, as haze from wildfires in Indonesia shrouds the region.
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Oct 16, 2026
Singapore probing firms over haze-causing Indonesian fires
By Cindy Wang
The city-state and neighboring Malaysia have been blanketed for weeks by toxic smog from a severe wildfire season in Indonesia.
A rescuer and a veterinarian with the YIRARI wildlife foundation carry a rescued orangutan in an area of a palm-oil plantation affected by wildfires, in the village of Laman Satong village, in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province, on Sept. 30.
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Oct 11, 2026
Indonesia releases eight orangutans rescued from fires to protected forest
Indonesian authorities and YIARI rescued 46 orangutans from threats of fires between August and Friday.
Residents hold placards during a protest against Amazon's planned data center, in Thane, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, last month.
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Oct 9, 2026
Modi wants India to power the AI age. Residents are pushing back.
Tech companies are pouring billions into facilities that advance Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambition to host “the whole world’s data.”
Nepalese Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal speaks during an interview in Kathmandu on Sept. 1 in the aftermath of flash floods.
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Sep 25, 2026
Rich nations should foot climate bill, says Nepalese minister
By Issam AHMED
The Himalayan nation suffered one of the worst catastrophes in its history late last month when a tsunami-like flood cut a swath of destruction.
Members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces are seen on the deck of the Japanese Osumi-class tank landing ship JS Kunisaki, docked at Kijing International Port shrouded in haze from wildfires in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, on Sept. 12.
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Sep 16, 2026
Indonesia’s choking wildfire and haze worsen breathing woes on Borneo
The country is experiencing its most intense fires in 11 years as “super-El Nino” conditions drive up temperatures and cause punishing droughts.

Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
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