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This picture taken from video released by the Italian Firefighters on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, show the stretch of Sea near Palermo, Sicily, in southern Italy, where the sail yacht Bayasian under UK flag sank early Monday.

Mediterranean August 19, 2024 3:21 pm

British tech magnate Mike Lynch, 2 US citizens among missing after luxury yacht sinks off Sicily

A luxury superyacht carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off Sicily in bad weather. One body was found, six people remain missing and 15 people were rescued, authorities said. The ship had overturned around 5 a

A general view of the flooded city of Derna, Libya, is seen Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023.

Mediterranean September 18, 2023 10:31 am

Libya was mired in chaos and corruption. For years, warnings the Derna dams may burst went unheeded

Experts had warned for years that floods pose a significant danger to two dams meant to protect 90,000 people in northeastern Libya.

People check an area damaged by flash floods in Derna, eastern Libya, on September 11, 2023. Flash floods in eastern Libya killed more than 2,300 people in the Mediterranean coastal city of Derna alone, the emergency services of the Tripoli-based government said on September 12.

Flooding September 14, 2023 6:58 am

More than 8,000 killed after heavy storm breaks dams in eastern Libya

More than 8,000 were killed after Mediterranean storm Daniel pummeled eastern Libya, causing two dams to burst.

cars and rubble sit in a street in Derna, Libya, on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, after it was flooded by heavy rains.

Flooding September 12, 2023 7:39 am

2,000 people feared dead after devastating flooding in eastern Libya

The head of one of Libya’s rival governments says flooding that swept through the eastern parts of the north African nation has left as many as 2,000 people feared dead.