Libya
Calypso the dog, WWII and tracing the extraordinary life of a one-armed man
For Andrew Probyn, a picture of a dog on the beach in Trinidad and Tobago began a quest to uncover names in a series of Kodachrome slides from 1956.
- by Andrew Probyn
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Stay put and risk death or cross sea of landmines: aftermath of a horror flood
Thousands of people were killed after two dams collapsed in Libya during a storm, destroying entire blocks of homes as people slept. The crisis is far from over.
- by Ahmed Elumami
Flood-ravaged Derna struggles to cope with aftermath
The World Health Organisation urged authorities in Libya to stop burying flood victims in mass graves, saying these could bring long-term mental distress.
- by Ahmed Elumami, Ayman al-Warfali and Emma Farge
Libyan death toll soars to 11,300 after flooding in coastal city of Derna
A UN official said on Thursday that most casualties could have been avoided if the war-torn country could have issued weather warnings.
- by Samy Magdy and Yousef Murad
Libyan deluge survivors hopped from rooftop to rooftop to escape
Ruba Hatem Yassine clambered to a rooftop and found shelter in a small storage unit as the city was wrecked with water.
- by Aaron Boxerman and Raja Abdulrahim
Wall of water ‘erased everything in its way’ in Libya
The flood death toll in the city of Derna has risen to more than 5100, a local health official in eastern Libya says after a torrent smashed through dams and washed away entire suburbs. Some 10,000 people are still missing.
- by Samy Magdy and Yousef Murad
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Floods
In Libya, 10,000 missing following devastating floods
Authorities estimated earlier that as many as 2000 people may have perished in the city of Derna alone.
- by Samy Magdy
Giorgia Meloni’s party estimates 680,000 migrants from Libya headed for Italy
The International Organisation for Migration said the figure cited by the Italian Prime Minister “doesn’t seem to be absolutely credible”.
- by Frances D'Emilio
Nearly 34 years after Pan Am 103 bombing, suspect appears in US court
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir al-Marimi is a suspect in the bombing of a Boeing 747 that killed all 259 people on board.
- by Sarah N. Lynch
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Terror charges
Suspected Lockerbie bomb maker in US custody, say Scottish prosecutors
A man accused of making the bomb that blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the United States.
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