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Pollution kills seven million every year, says WHO

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LONDON: Air pollution kills about seven million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves, according to a new report from the World Health Organisation published on Tuesday. The agency said air pollution is the cause of about one in eight deaths and has now become […]


NGOs suspend work at IDPs’ camp after threat

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By: SUHAIL KAKAKHEL NOWSHERA: Local and international humanitarian organisations suspended work at the Jalozai camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) on Friday after intelligence agencies issued a warning about a bomb attack at the place, security and aid agencies’ officials said. A representative of an international NGO, who requested not to be identified, told Dawn […]