Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said on the 16th that smoke from wildfires on Kalimantan has reached the airspace over Jakarta but has not descended to ground level. Satellite imagery shows haze spreading over Banten province, Jakarta and parts of West Java, currently lingering about 2–3 km above the surface; satellite data alone cannot confirm a rise in near-surface air pollution in Jakarta. Several areas have registered hazardous air quality. Indonesia's Healt

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China's disarmament ambassador Li Chijiang told the UN General Assembly First Committee on the 16th that global security has become more complex and severe, multilateral nuclear arms-control confrontation has intensified, and concern about a nuclear arms race and nuclear war has risen. He said Cold War thinking, double standards and unilateralism are the main drivers undermining strategic stability, non-proliferation and global nuclear governance. Li urged states to adopt a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable approach to security, reiterated that nuclear weapons must not be used and nuclear war must not be fought, and called on nuclear-armed states to abandon policies of winning a nuclear war and first-use, and to negotiate a no-first-use treaty and an international legal instrument on nuclear security assurances.