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Damage from massive flooding is seen in Derna, Libya, Wednesday, Sept.13, 2023. Search teams are combing streets, wrecked buildings, and even the sea to look for bodies in Derna, where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed thousands of people. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Flooding death toll soars to 11,300 in Libya’s coastal city of Derna, aid group says

The Libyan Red Crescent says that the death toll from floods in the eastern Libyan city of Derna has soared to 11,300. The Secretary General of the aid group says a further 10,100 people are reported missing in the coastal city.
 
A general view of the city of Derna is seen on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns, the destruction appeared greatest in Derna city. (AP Photo/Jamal Alkomaty)

How Libya’s chaos left its people vulnerable to deadly flooding

 
In this photo provided by the Libyan government, cars and rubble sit in a street in Derna, Libya, on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, after it was flooded by heavy rains. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams swept away entire neighborhoods and wrecked homes in multiple coastal towns in the east of the North African nation. As many as 2,000 people were feared dead one of the country's leaders said. (Libyan government via AP)

Flooding in Libya leaves 2,000 people feared dead and more missing after storm collapsed dams

 
FILE - Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato looks on next to an empty seat, during a press conference after a cabinet meeting in Rome's Palazzo Chigi premier's office, Friday March 16, 2007. A former Italian premier is contending that a French air force missile brought down a passenger jet over the Mediterranean Sea in 1980 and is appealing to France's president to respond. The crash of the Italian domestic airliner killed all 81 persons aboard. What caused the crash is an enduring mystery. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri, File)

Italian ex-premier says French missile downed an airliner in 1980 by accident in bid to kill Gadhafi

 
FILE - Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen talks to the media during a press conference after a meeting with his Cyprus' counterpart Constantinos Kombos and Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias at the Presidential palace in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on March 31, 2023. The Israeli and Libyan foreign ministers met secretly in Italy last week, Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023 in what it said was the first-ever meeting between the country’s top diplomats. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Israel says its foreign minister met with his Libyan counterpart in sign of burgeoning ties

 

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UN experts urge forces of powerful Libyan commander to stop evicting residents, demolishing homes

 
FILE - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, greets Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi upon his arrival at the Elysee Palace, in Paris Dec. 10, 2007. French investigative magistrates on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, ordered former president Nicolas Sarkozy and 12 others to go on trial on charges that his 2007 presidential campaign received millions in illegal financing from the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

French former President Nicolas Sarkozy to go on trial over Libya financing for 2007 campaign

 
FILE - Libyan security forces stand guard in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2023. One of Libya’s rival prime ministers warned Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, that his government would not tolerate any further militia fighting, days after the year’s bloodiest bout of clashes rocked the capital, Tripoli, killing at least 45 people. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

Libya’s stability at greater risk after deadly militia clashes, turmoil in Niger and Sudan, UN says

 
This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)

Libya’s central bank announces reunification after nearly a decade of division due to civil war

 
FILE - Hannibal Gadhafi, son of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, watches an elite military unit exercise in Zlitan, Libya, Sept. 25, 2011. Libya's judicial authorities have formally asked Lebanon's prosecutor general to help in the release of Hannibal Gadhafi, who was held in Lebanon since 2015 because of his deteriorating health conditions, judicial officials said Monday, Aug 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany, File)

Libya asks Lebanon to release Gadhafi’s detained son who is on hunger strike, officials say

 

Libyan governing body’s vote to replace its head adds uncertainty to the country’s split politics

 
This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)

Nearly 400 Pakistani migrants were freed in raid on Libyan trafficking warehouse, rights group says

 
FILE - Hannibal Gadhafi, son of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, watches an elite military unit exercise in Zlitan, Libya, Sept. 25, 2011. Hannibal Gadhafi who has been held in Lebanon for more than seven years began a hunger strike Saturday, June 3, 2023, to protest his detention without trial, his lawyer said. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany, File)

Gadhafi’s detained son taken to hospital due to hunger strike in Lebanon

 

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