[BBC] On Saturday night of September 9, residents of the city of Derna in Libya were woken up by a large ... tropical-like cyclone, hit two dams weighing 1.5 million tonnes causing water to ...

A general view of the city of Derna is seen on Tuesday. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns.

A fortnight has elapsed since present-day Libya was hit by devastating floods caused by the collapse of two dams. Photos of towns, reduced to muddy rubble, are hard to look at. They remind me of ...