WASHINGTON, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Global air pollution is worsening, with the United States and Canada experiencing the sharpest increases due to record-breaking, climate-supercharged wildfires that are undoing decades of progress, a study said Thursday. The Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) annual report uses satellite data to assess levels of particulate matter worldwide, with records dating back to 1998. It translates concentrations into years of life expectancy lost, based on peer-reviewed science. "I just don't think this can be repeated enough: particulate matter remains the greatest external threat to human health on the planet, period," Michael Greenstone, an economics professor at the University of Chicago who co-created AQLI, told AFP. "It's worse than tobacco smoke. It's worse than child...
KIGALI, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A first group of seven migrants has arrived in Rwanda as part of a deal to accept deportees from...
ROME, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The UN's World Food Programme warned Thursday that Gaza is "at breaking point" and appealed to urgently revive its...
BANGKOK, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The toll in northern Thailand from landslides and flooding triggered by Typhoon Kajiki rose to five dead and 15...
PARIS, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday accused Russia of showing "terror and barbarism" with missile and drone attacks on...
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - EU chief Antonio Costa on Thursday said he was "horrified" by a fresh round of deadly Russian strikes...
JERUSALEM, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Israel's defence minister said Thursday its forces were operating in "all combat zones", after Syrian state media reported a...
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A South African court on Wednesday found radical left politician Julius Malema guilty of hate speech for telling his...
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Investigators were seeking to find out why a heavily-armed shooter opened fire on school children at a church service...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that members of his administration would meet with US officials in New...
KIGALI, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Rwanda and Mozambique have signed a "peace and security" agreement during a visit by the southern African leader to...
The move makes South Korea the latest country to restrict social media use among schoolchildren, following similar steps in countries including Australia and the Netherlands....
QUITO, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Nine people died and several more were injured Wednesday after a bus plunged into a ravine in the Andes...