Libya
The sheikh who conquered soccer – and coddles warlords
The Emirati vice president is best known as the owner of Manchester City soccer club. Behind the scenes, he is called the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars.
- Declan Walsh and Tariq Panja
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America’s most unwanted and the urgent cable that reveals where Trump wants them to go
The global dealmaking efforts show the measures the US president is willing to take to fulfil his aspirations for mass deportations, even if it means flying immigrants into danger.
- Edward Wong, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and Minho Kim
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- Trump's White House
‘We don’t want them’: Trump imposes travel bans on citizens from 12 countries
The US president has announced a total ban on citizens from a dozen countries entering the US and a partial ban on several more nations, a move that partly revives controversial travel restrictions from his first term.
- Michael Koziol
Judge steps in over Trump’s touted plan to send migrants to Libya
The relatives of a Mexican man said he had been instructed to sign a document allowing for his deportation to the African nation.
- Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Humeyra Pamuk
Trump’s war on efforts to slow climate change futile
By doubling down on his cry to “drill, baby, drill” and removing all limits on America’s booming fossil fuel industry, the new president has once again declared war on the world’s climate mitigation efforts. But this is a war he can’t win.
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.
- Andrew Probyn
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Samy Magdy and Yousef Murad
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