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As scale of disaster become clearer, survivors in small mountain communities feel they have been abandonedAs the dirt roads leading to some of the areas worst hit in Friday’s earthquake in Morocco were gradually cleared, the full extent of the disaster…
Local leaders in eastern city of Derna say thousands missing after two ageing dams collapse overnightAs many as 2,000 people may have been drowned after a powerful storm unleashed catastrophic floods in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, according to th…
Palestinian Authority leader caused outrage after talking about Hitler and European Jews in a speech to his Fatah partyDozens of leading Palestinian intellectuals, artists and other public figures have published an open letter condemning antisemitic co…
France offers €5m to assist disaster relief efforts amid political rift between Rabat and ParisFrance’s foreign minister has said it is up to Morocco whether to seek French aid in dealing with its deadliest earthquake in more than six decades, and Fran…
Ylva Johansson says EU is supporting Swedish government in attempt to get 33-year-old home after 512 daysThe European Commission has said it is “very worried” about the plight of a Swedish EU official who has spent more than 500 days in jail in Iran.Yl…
Authorities accept help from some countries but other offers not yet taken up as search for survivors runs out of timeThe death toll in the Moroccan earthquake has passed 2,600 people as a limited number of foreign aid and rescue teams joined an intens…
Help has yet to arrive in the village of Moulay Brahim in the Atlas mountains where many homes have been reduced to rubbleIn a narrow passage in the village of Moulay Brahim in Morocco’s Atlas mountains, a house has spilled across the lane in a drift o…
Rabat has yet to issue appeal for international aid despite powerful quake killing more than 2,000 peopleSeveral countries have offered aid and search support after the Moroccan earthquake, but most of the rescue operation in remote mountain areas was …
Toll from army attack in the south of the capital is the largest in a single incident since war broke outAt least 40 civilians were killed and dozens injured in an airstrike by the army on a market in southern Khartoum, a local volunteer group has said…
Villagers bury their dead while Red Cross warns recovery may take years and other countries offer aidRescuers in Morocco were trying to find survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings as the country began three days of mourning for victims of a dis…