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The Lebanese pound sinks to a historic low against the dollar on the parallel market, as banks in the crisis-hit country resumed an open-ended strike. The Lebanese pound, officially pegged at 15,000 to the dollar, was trading at 100,000 against the greenback on Tuesday, dealers said -- a dizzying plunge from 1,507 before the economic crisis hit in 2019. IMAGES
Rescue workers, residents, and journalists gather in front of a collapsed building in Antakya as a new 6.4 magnitude earthquake shook the southern Turkish province of Hatay and northern Syria following the 6 February tremor that killed nearly 45,000 people in both countries. IMAGES
People and emergency brigade clean up mud and water from flooded streets in Sayulita, in the northwestern Mexican state of Nayar, as Category 3 Hurricane Roslyn makes landfall on Mexico's west coast. IMAGES
People queue outside a Covid-19 test center as Germany hits a record 100,000 daily Covid-19 cases. Germany's daily toll of new Covid-19 cases has topped 100,000 for the first time, according to data from the country's public health agency. IMAGES
Images show the Ramada Hotel in Schiphol, Netherlands where Europe's highest number of people so far with the Omicron strain of Covid-19 are being kept in isolation. IMAGES
Monrovia, Sep 24 (EFE/EPA).- Oliver Grear is a professional electrical repairman in Monrovia who - at the age of thirteen - began collecting old electrical appliances in landfills to learn how to repair them.During the civil war in Liberia, he took refuge in the Ivory Coast and now teaches four young people this profession in the coastal community of West Point in Monrovia.Liberia is one of the West African countries with an extremely high rate of unemployment among young people. (Camera: AHMED JALLANZO). B-ROLL OF OLIVER GREAR'S WORKSHOP IN THE COASTAL COMMUNITY OF WEST POINT IN MONROVIA, LIBERIA.SOUND BITES: OLIVER GREAR, ELECTRICAL REPAIRER (IN ENGLISH).