Vietnamese capital Hanoi was blanketed by a thick haze of pollution on Tuesday that obscured high-rise buildings and left the city's nearly nine million people breathing toxic air. The city topped air monitoring website IQAir's table of the world's most polluted cities early Tuesday afternoon. Levels of PM2.5 pollutants -- cancer-causing microparticles
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Protesting Indian farmers clash with police for a second day as they march toward the capital
Protesting Indian farmers clashed with police for a second consecutive day on Wednesday as tens of thousands tried to march to the capital to demand guaranteed prices for their produce. Police fired tear gas at the farmers near the Shambhu border, which divides northern Punjab and Haryana states, about 200 kilometers