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'I know it's immoral': Child labour still common in Pakistan
AFP, Published on 13/10/2025
» KARACHI - From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan's megacity of Karachi.
Sounds serious: New York City noise pollution takes a toll
AFP, Published on 20/08/2025
» NEW YORK — Tim Mulligan moved to central Manhattan in the United States so he could be closer to work and avoid a daily ordeal on the rattling, screeching subway, just one part of the urban noisescape that tests New Yorkers every day.
Afro-Brazilian carnival celebrates cultural kinship in Lagos
AFP, Published on 21/04/2025
» LAGOS - Thousands of young and old descendants of formerly enslaved people donned elaborate costumes Sunday to bring the rhythm, vibrancy and colours of Brazil's Rio Carnival to the streets of Lagos in Nigeria.
Pakistan’s air pollution sends nearly 1,000 to hospital
Bloomberg News, Published on 07/11/2024
» LAHORE — More than 900 people have been admitted to hospital in a single day in the Pakistani megacity of Lahore due to air pollution, the local government said.
Chinese megacity limits outdoor lighting to save power
Reuters, Published on 06/08/2024
» BEIJING - The megacity of Hangzhou, home to some of China’s largest companies, has banned all nonessential landscape lighting to conserve energy as extreme heat pushed up demand for electricity and air-conditioning and tested power grids.
Indonesia revives $10.5bn Jakarta sea wall plan
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/01/2024
» JAKARTA - Indonesia is reviving plans to construct a giant sea wall in the latest of a series of measures to prevent its capital city Jakarta from sinking at a faster rate.
'Like breathing poison': Delhi children hardest hit by smog
AFP, Published on 09/11/2023
» NEW DELHI - Crying in a hospital bed with a nebuliser mask on his tiny face, one-month-old Ayansh Tiwari has a thick, hacking cough. His doctors blame the acrid air that blights New Delhi every year.
'Air-pocalypse': Indian capital launches 'Green War Room'
AFP, Published on 03/11/2023
» NEW DELHI - The enemy is nearly invisible and there are no soldiers, but the Indian capital's new "Green War Room" is battling air pollution that is cutting lives of residents by over a decade.
Pakistani ex-PM Nawaz Sharif plots comeback
AFP and Reuters, Published on 21/10/2023
» ISLAMABAD - Three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrived back in Pakistan Saturday after four years of self-imposed exile, primed to make a political comeback ahead of elections.
'They're afraid of joy': Pakistan's trans community fights hate
AFP, Published on 10/10/2023
» KARACHI - Clad in a Barbie-pink shalwar kameez, influencer and doctor Mehrub Moiz Awan reels off endless examples of harassment she's received since becoming the sharp-tongued figurehead of Pakistan's queer community.