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Libyan city counts toll of huge flood, 10,000 missing
Sep 13, 2023 09:53Libya's eastern city of Derna was counting its dead Wednesday with 2,300 people confirmed killed in devastating flash floods unleashed by Storm Daniel and the Red Cross warning that 10,000 are missing.
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Libya floods kill thousands of people
Sep 13, 2023 09:51Thousands of people have been killed in Libya and many more are reported missing after catastrophic flash floods broke river dams. The epicenter of the crisis is Derna, a coastal city in eastern Libya. The floods have torn through the city, devastating entire neighborhoods.
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President Raeisi says Iran ready to send relief aid, medical assistance to flood-stricken Libya
Sep 12, 2023 14:26President Ebrahim Raeisi has voiced Iran’s readiness to send relief aid and provide medical assistance and supplies to Libya over the deadly flood in the North African country.
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Flooding leaves thousands dead, missing in eastern Libya after dams collapse
Sep 12, 2023 09:49At least 2,000 people have been killed and thousands more are missing after a devastating flood hit the city of Derna in eastern Libya, resulting in the collapse of two dams, authorities say.
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Libya’s prosecutor to probe secret meeting with Israel FM
Sep 04, 2023 05:00Libya’s chief prosecutor has set up a fact-finding mission to probe a recent secret meeting between the country’s foreign minister and her Israeli counterpart that was publicized last week.
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‘Long live Palestinian cause,’ says Libya PM amid backlash over secret meeting
Sep 01, 2023 05:53Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has vehemently rejected any form of normalization with Israel in his first public remarks after Tripoli received massive popular backlash over a secret meeting between the North African country’s top diplomat and her Israeli counterpart.
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Libya politicians call for ouster of Dbeibeh govt. over secret meeting with Israel FM
Aug 30, 2023 03:59Top Libyan politicians have called for the ouster of the government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh after it was revealed that the country’s foreign minister and her Israeli counterpart met secretly, despite the two countries not having formal relations.
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Libya suspends foreign minister over Israeli talks amid angry protests
Aug 28, 2023 03:53Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah says he has suspended the North African country’s top diplomat after Israel's foreign ministry said their foreign ministers had met the previous week.
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Sarkozi to face trial for receiving funds for presidential bid from Libya's Gaddafi
Aug 26, 2023 11:31Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will face a trial in 2025 on charges of corruption and receiving illegal funding from former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for his successful 2007 presidential campaign, according to France’s financial prosecutors.
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Libya clashes leave 55 people dead in capital Tripoli
Aug 17, 2023 06:47Intense fighting between rival military factions in Libya’s capital Tripoli has reportedly killed 55 people.