Europeans with long-term exposure to particulate pollution from road traffic or industry run a higher risk of premature death, even if air quality meets EU standards, a study said on Monday.
Kazakhstan eyes ratifying a loan agreement with the Asian Development Bank to fund repairs of Shymkent-Tashkent section of the Western Europe-Western China international transit corridor.
A new highway touted as a way to ease Beirut's notorious traffic has angered residents and activists who say it will destroy rare old houses that survived Lebanon's 15-year civil war.