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The United Nations Libya mission "will assess the implementability" of electoral laws issued by Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh,

PARIS Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was placed under formal investigation on Friday for alleged witness tampering and

Greek farmers fear for the future as crops, orchards and herds of animals were lost in Storm Daniel.

Protests have erupted in the eastern Libyan city of Derna with locals demanding the removal of those in power, a week after torrential rain caused two dams to collapse, sweeping whole neighborhoods into the Mediterranean Sea and killing thousands.

Derna's mayor is targeted a week after devastating floods many residents blame on incompetence.

It's quiet at the Martoba cemetery outside the Libyan city of Derna, despite the presence of dozens of volunteers. Men in white hazmat suits pour lime over the brown soil to seal the graves. Cement bricks jutting out of the heaps of dirt are the only signs of the hundreds of bodies buried underneath.

By Ahmed Elumami and Ayman al-Warfali DERNA, Libya "I lost my daughter. Her mother is convinced that she

The UN has amended its previous death toll from the floods in Libya, according to a revised report updated on Sunday morning from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Members of a Libyan family also died in the crash and several other people were seriously injured.

Doctors are struggling to identify the remains which have been found as the death toll rises.

By Ahmed Elumami and Ayman al-Warfali DERNA, Libya People whose homes were swept away by flooding in Libya's

Emergency teams are working to find survivors and retrieve bodies after a massive flood hit Libya's northeast three days ago, killing at least 11,000 people and leaving 10,000 missing.