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Libya’s $18-billion dollars flood repair bill

Libya’s $18-billion dollars flood repair bill

LIBYA'S deadly flash flood in September constituted a climate and environmental catastrophe that requires $1.8 billion in reconstruction and recovery, an international report said. Huge swathes of the city of Derna were destroyed in the flood, after heavy rainfall from Storm Daniel crashed through two aging dams, sweeping entire districts into the Mediterranean. The report by the World Bank, United Nations and European Union said the disaster affected about 1.5 million people or 22% of Libya's population, and cited figures from the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA of 4,352 confirmed deaths with 8,000 still missing. Libya has been split since 2014 between rival…
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COP27: We’re on a highway to climate hell, U.N. boss says

COP27: We’re on a highway to climate hell, U.N. boss says

VALERIE VOLCOVICI and SIMON JESSOP UNITED Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told countries gathered at the start of the COP27 summit in Egypt they face a stark choice: work together now to cut emissions or condemn future generations to climate catastrophe. The speech set an urgent tone as governments sit down for two weeks of talks on how to avert the worst of climate change, even as they are distracted by Russia’s war in Ukraine, rampant consumer inflation and energy shortages. "Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish,” Guterres told delegates gathered in the seaside resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. He called for a pact between…
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