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‘What happened is criminal negligence of the first order’, says founder of Libyan think tank
We spoke to Anas El Gomati – founder of the Libyan independent think tank – Sadeq Institute.
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‘We’re afraid of an epidemic of diseases like cholera, hepatitis and typhoid’, says Benghazi doctor
We spoke to Dr Mohamed Abolefa – a doctor who’s in the Libyan city of Benghazi.
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Libya floods: Demands for inquiry into burst dams as death toll rises
As the death toll grows, so too does the anger – and a country divided by the legacy of civil war is now united in its call for accountability.
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FactCheck: what we know about the Libyan flood and climate change
Research is still underway to establish the exact role climate change could have played in Storm Daniel and the Libya flood.
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Biden impeachment inquiry: Is there evidence against president?
Donald Trump is no stranger to impeachment proceedings. He’s faced charges not once – but twice. Now, right wing republicans in Congress have been pushing to impeach his likely rival in next year’s elections, President Joe Biden. Yesterday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy finally ordered an inquiry to be opened – but do they have the…
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Mahsa Amini: A year on from death – did protests change Iran?
It’s a year since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested by Iran’s morality police on the streets of Iran. Within days she was dead – her family said she’d been beaten in custody. Her death ignited a wave of women-led protests that shook Iran, posing the biggest threat the regime has faced in almost half a…
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Kim Jong Un and Putin building ‘problem-solving dynamic’, says director
We spoke to Dr John Park, director of the Korea Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an expert on North Korea’s military capabilities and nuclear ambitions.
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Kim Jong Un pledges support for Putin’s ‘sacred fight’ with West (dubbed)
The North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has given his full support to what he called Russia’s “sacred struggle” – as he met Vladimir Putin for talks at a space facility in Russia’s far east. According to Kim, the two leaders agreed to “further strengthen strategic and tactical co-operation” – although there were no details…
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‘We only hope to find them and bury them’: Libyan translator on family members missing after floods
We spoke to Enas Mzaini, a translator who lives in the city of Tobruk, a couple of hours drive from Derna where her family lives. We began by asking what she knows about the situation there.
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Libya floods: Up to 20,000 people dead amid catastrophic damage
International aid is slowly starting to arrive in eastern Libya – amid fears that tens of thousands are buried under mud and rubble.
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We need trillions not billions of dollars to tackle climate change, former Costa Rican president says
Costa Rica, which isn’t in the G20, has pledged to totally decarbonize its economy, generate all of its electricity from renewables by the end of the dacade, and is the first tropical country to have reversed deforestation.
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Sunak confronts Beijing after reports of Westminster Chinese spy arrest
Rishi Sunak has confronted the Chinese Premier over what he said was China’s “unacceptable” interference in British democracy.
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‘Lack of transparency’ over situation in Morocco causes ‘anger and frustration’ for families, historian says
We spoke to Samia Errazzouki, a North African historian at Stanford University who’s an expert on the governance of the Moroccan state.
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‘Extreme devastation and much need’ in Morocco, Red Cross says
We spoke to Hossam Elsharkawi, the Middle East and North African director for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
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Morocco earthquake: death toll rises above 2,000
Villagers in Morocco have been digging through rubble with their bare hands, retrieving bodies and searching for survivors after Friday night’s 6.8 magnitude earthquake. 2,122 people are now known to have died – a number that’s expected to rise.