Workers rushed to restore communication and power links and clear roads after a cyclone battered India's east coast.
Iraqi authorities have contracted a Czech firm to carry out a 10-month restoration of the ancient Arch of Ctesiphon as part of a plan to boost tourism to the once-popular site.
The Ili River estuary and the Southern part of Balkhash lake were included into the Wetland of International Importance List.
The coal of the agreement is to strengthen Kazakhstan’s role in the international effort to stabilize and restore Afghanistan.
