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Anu Anand introduces analysis, reportage and wit from around the world. In this edition:

Zimbabweans have survived plenty of economic shocks over the past thirty years, but there was hope that after Robert Mugabe left power in 2017, and the disputed election of this summer, the country could claw its way back to stability. But as Andrew Harding's seen, in recent weeks, long fuel queues, panic buying, empty shelves and dizzying exchange-rate mathematics are back on the streets of Harare.

Nicola Kelly reports on Serbia's worrying stockpile of illegal weapons - and what they may be doing to aggravate the country's culture of machismo and its problem with domestic violence and domestic murders.

Andrew Clayton meets some of the "manual scavengers" of Delhi: the latrine cleaners who must descend into the city's underground sewer system, without safety equipment, to clear it out by hand. It's not just a filthy job, but a very, very dangerous one, with links to labour gangmasters and the bottom rung of the caste system.

And from Beirut, Lizzie Porter tells the story of Dr Hussein al Husseini - who's not just a Shia cleric, but also a father, a divorcee, a cat lover ... and a passionate player of the piano. When he circulated videos of himself at the keyboard in religious robes, there was uproar. What do his experiences reveal about cultural "red lines" in Lebanon?

Photo: A filling station attendant fills a car with fuel at a petrol station on July 30, 2018 in Harare, Zimbabwe. ( Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)