The entire southern Indian Ocean was battered by Cyclone Freddy in 2023, which created havoc and wrecked devastation in southeastern Africa, and now has been classified by the United Nations as the longest-lasting tropical cyclone on record which lasted for 36 days.

Indian Ocean was battered by world's longest cyclone in 2023

For the third time in 13 years, Venezuela on Friday will slash zeroes off its inflation-battered currency, the bolivar. This time, it will shed six zeroes, for a total of 14 since 2008.

A million bolivars become one as Venezuela recalibrates battered currency

After a break of 20 years,?Afghanistan's first?cementfactory is once more clanking noisily in the countryside near Kabul as crushed-up limestone rocks rattle along a battered conveyor belt to the newly restored kiln. In an area desperately short of industry and jobs, workers hope the relaunch of the plant built by Czech engineers in 1957 and shut by the Taliban in 1995.

Hopes and fears for jobs as Afghan cement factory reopens

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