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  "id": 14653697,
  "title": "Haze turns Indonesia skies orange, shuts schools in East Timor",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/haze-turns-indonesia-skies-orange-shuts-schools-in-east-timor",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-15T08:26:00.000Z",
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    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/haze-turns-indonesia-skies-orange-shuts-schools-in-east-timor-2-1.500711469"
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  "summary": "Palangkaraya: Thick haze turned the skies in Indonesia’s Palangkaraya apocalyptic shades of yellow and orange on Thursday, reducing visibility to a few dozen metres as wildfires cause a regional air pollution crisis. Kuala Lumpur topped monitoring site IQAir’s ranking of most polluted major global cities by Thursday, followed closely by Singapore, and with Indonesia’s Medan and capital Jakarta…",
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        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "Indonesia tests dry ice to fight haze over Palembang",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/indonesia-tests-dry-ice-to-fight-haze-over-palembang",
        "published": "2026-10-15T03:12:41.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "E. Timor shuts schools over Indonesia haze",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/e-timor-shuts-schools-over-indonesia-haze",
        "published": "2026-10-15T04:43:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "'Very dangerous': Timor-Leste shuts schools over Indonesia haze",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/very-dangerous-timor-leste-shuts-schools-over-indonesia-haze",
        "published": "2026-10-15T06:46:34.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Malay Mail",
        "title": "Lim Guan Eng urges Malaysia to sue Indonesia over haze if Jakarta rejects Asean firefighting task force",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/lim-guan-eng-urges-malaysia-to-sue-indonesia-over-haze-if-jakarta",
        "published": "2026-10-15T06:53:41.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "ABC News AU",
        "title": "Indonesia to deploy dry ice to reduce thick haze from fires",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/indonesia-to-deploy-dry-ice-to-reduce-thick-haze-from-fires",
        "published": "2026-10-15T07:36:51.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Bangkok Post",
        "title": "Orange skies in Indonesia as haze crisis spreads",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/orange-skies-in-indonesia-as-haze-crisis-spreads",
        "published": "2026-10-15T08:45:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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