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Air pollution in Beijing hits a record high but the government is being unusually open about it. Next, we look at the fisherman in Pakistan and India being used as diplomatic bargaining chips. Finally, we look at why trade along the fabled silk road in Afghanistan is becoming scarcer and scarcer.
India's foreign minister S. Jaishankar greets his Pakistani and Russian counterparts as they arrive for a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in the Indian coastal resort state of Goa. IMAGES
Bugatti’s position as the leading manufacturer of hyper sports cars continues to flourish, following the most successful year in the company’s history. During 2021, 150 customers personalized and ordered a hyper sports car from Bugatti - 60 per cent of which were completely new to the brand. The ground-breaking Chiron is sold out and all forty units of the most extreme Bugatti ever – the Bolide – were allocated just two months after its unveiling at The Quail in August.Deliveries of Bugatti hyper sports cars continued to customers around the world, with many notable highlights. Among those delivered in 2021 were the first Chiron Super Sport 300+ – a special edition commemorating Bugatti’s record-breaking 304.773mph run – and La Voiture Noire, the one-off bespoke haute couture automotive masterpiece. All remaining units of the Divo, a reinterpretation of Bugatti’s coachbuilding heritage, were also delivered to customers.
New Delhi, Sep 18 (EFE/EPA).- India administered over 25 million vaccines against Covid-19 on Friday, a new record achieved through a special campaign to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modis 71st birthday. ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF VACCINATIONS IN INDIA.
New Delhi, Sep 16 (EFE/EPA).- UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has warned of “greater suffering, instability, and displacement” in Afghanistan as he concluded a three-day visit to the country on tenterhooks since the Islamist Taliban seized power in Kabul last month.At the end of his Afghan tour, Grandi appealed for urgent and sustained support for people in the country and for refugees who have fled abroad, the UN Refugee Agency said in a statement.“The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan remains desperate,” said Grandi. (Camera: HARISH TYAGI).SHOT LIST: AFGHAN REFUGEES RESIDING IN INDIA PROTEST AGAINST ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT OF PAKISTAN IN BACKING THE TALIBAN AS TALIBAN HAVE SEIZED POWER IN AFGHANISTAN, IN NEW DELHI, INDIA.
New Delhi (India), Sep 14 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Rajat Gupta) .- Afghan refugees protested this Tuesday in New Delhi against Pakistan for showing their support for the Taliban, after the capture of Kabul by of the insurgents on August 15.FOOTAGE FROM THE AFGHAN REFUGEE PROTEST AGAINST PAKISTAN HELD IN NEW DELHI, INDIA.