{"id":668143,"date":"2026-01-02T03:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/668143\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T03:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:22:13","slug":"lionel-messis-india-visit-focuses-attention-on-delhi-smog-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/668143\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi&#8217;s India visit focuses attention on Delhi smog crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20251224 Air pollution in New Delhi\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleCaption_featureArticleCaption__eXLkj\" data-trackable=\"caption\" style=\"display:block\">People walk\u00a0through New Delhi&#8217;s haze on Nov. 13. The Indian capital\u00a0has long been dogged by pollution that worsens toward\u00a0the end of each year: One estimate suggests breathing the city&#8217;s air for a day in December is as harmful as smoking six cigarettes. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7 FeatureArticleTag_featureArticleTag__Icbk9\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/policy-asia\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Policy Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleSubhead_featureArticleSubhead__9P3Jq\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mod=\"false\">Delhi chief minister slated as efforts to cut pollution fail to make impact in first year in office<\/p>\n<p>KIRAN SHARMA<\/p>\n<p>January 2, 2026 06:00 JST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People walk\u00a0through New Delhi&#8217;s haze on Nov. 13. The Indian capital\u00a0has long been dogged by pollution that worsens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[28027,6659,53548,728,155865,730,203603,203604,70,179833,16,15,23904],"class_list":{"0":"post-668143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-attention","9":"tag-crisis","10":"tag-delhi","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-focuses","13":"tag-india","14":"tag-lionel","15":"tag-messis","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-smog","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-visit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115823361585297370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}