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Flooding death toll soars to 11,300 in Libya's coastal city of Derna, aid group says
DERNA, Libya (AP) — The death toll in Libya's coastal city of Derna has soared to 11,300 as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent said Thursday. Marie el-Drese, the aid group's secretary-general,...
How Libya’s chaos left its people vulnerable to deadly flooding
LONDON (AP) — A storm that has killed thousands of people and left thousands more missing in Libya is the latest blow to a country that has been gutted by years of chaos and division. The floods are the most fatal environmental disaster in the country’s modern history. Years of...
Flooding in Libya leaves 2,000 people feared dead and more missing after storm collapsed dams
CAIRO (AP) — Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods 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 Monday. The...
UN experts urge forces of powerful Libyan commander to stop evicting residents, demolishing homes
CAIRO (AP) — United Nations-commissioned experts on Monday called for forces of a powerful Libyan military commander to stop evicting residents and demolishing their homes in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. The experts said in a statement that the Libyan National Army,...
Italian ex-premier says French missile downed an airliner in 1980 by accident in bid to kill Gadhafi
ROME (AP) — A former Italian premier, in an interview published on Saturday, contended that a French air force missile accidentally brought down a passenger jet over the Mediterranean Sea in 1980 in a failed bid to assassinate Libya's then leader Moammar Gadhafi. Former two-time...
Today in History: September 1, Titanic wreckage is found
Today in History Today is Friday, Sept. 1, the 244th day of 2023. There are 121 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 1, 1983, 269 people were killed when a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter...
Israel says its foreign minister met with his Libyan counterpart in sign of burgeoning ties
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli and Libyan foreign ministers met secretly in Italy last week, Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced Sunday, in what it said was the first-ever meeting between the country’s top diplomats. The meeting between Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and...
French former President Nicolas Sarkozy to go on trial over Libya financing for 2007 campaign
PARIS (AP) — French investigative magistrates on Friday 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. The...
Libya's stability at greater risk after deadly militia clashes, turmoil in Niger and Sudan, UN says
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Libya’s stability is at greater risk following recent militia clashes and amid turmoil in neighboring Sudan and Niger that could spill over into the oil-rich North African nation, the country's U.N. special envoy said Tuesday. Abdoulaye Bathily told the U.N....
Libya’s central bank announces reunification after nearly a decade of division due to civil war
CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s central bank announced Sunday its reunification after being split for nearly a decade due to the country’s long-running civil war that resulted in two rival administrations, in the east and the west. The bank said in a terse statement that it has become a...
