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Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has asked Malaysians to pray for haze conditions to improve before National Day celebrations on August 31, as air quality concerns loom over the upcoming festivities.
Ethiopia launched a nationwide tree-planting campaign planting 800 million seedlings in one day, part of its Green Legacy Initiative to plant over 8 billion trees this year and restore forest cover across the East African nation.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's flight to New York was cancelled due to smoke from Canadian wildfires degrading air quality. She rerouted via a defence ministry aircraft to attend the World Cup final alongside US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.