Disaster

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Residents of the heavily populated city of New Delhi, India have had to tie scarves across their faces in an effort to breathe more easily. 

The heavy smog in the city is entering day three, and a state of emergency could soon be declared to protect the health of the people who reside there.

Air quality readings in India’s capital have soared since Tuesday, with one monitor showing levels in the city were 969.

Update: Police on scene at Covent Garden dealing with serious injury accident involving a taxi. Not Terror related.

Police on scene at Covent Garden dealing with serious injury accident involving a taxi. Not Terror related. Further updates will follow.

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Against disappointing China PMIs, US Manufacturing PMI surged back near 2017 highs in October - shrugging off the efects of recent storms, floods, and wildfires - with factory jobs near their best since the financial crisis and gains broadening out to smaller firms too. However, ISM Manufacturing disappointed, falling back from 13 year highs.

So take your pick... is manufacturing momentum picking up (PMI) or fading (ISM)?

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Iceland’s biggest volcano has been rocked by the strongest earthquake since it last erupted in 2014.

With swarms of earthquakes occurring in the French Alps too, Europe is facing what could be one of the largest natural disasters in history.

A group of Chinese scientists have joined their North American peers in warning that North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear site could be on the verge of a dangerous collapse that could send a dangerous bloom of radiation floating over the border into Northern China.