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Week after quake hit Morocco, survivors worry about dire hygiene conditions

By Anne-Sophie Labadie: In her earthquake-hit Moroccan town, Zina Mechghazzi has improvised a sink by placing a pink bucket and a bar of soap on the dusty ground amid the ruins. "I haven't taken a shower in seven days," said the woman from Amizmiz at the foot of the...
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Libya: Phone and internet links severed in flood-hit Derna, day after protest

Telephone and internet links were severed Tuesday to Libya's flood-hit city of Derna, a day after hundreds protested there against local authorities they blamed for the thousands of deaths. A tsunami-sized flash flood broke through two ageing river dams upstream from...
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 Libya: The utter destruction of Derna

By Abdullah Doma: Rescuers sifted through mud and rubble Friday in their search for people missing from the tsunami-sized flash flood that swept the Libyan port city of Derna, killing more than 3,000.  The surge of water burst two upstream dams on Sunday, turning...
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Morocco: Race against time to find survivors 4 days after quake

Hopes dimmed on Tuesday in Morocco's search for survivors, four days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,800 people, most of them in remote villages of the High Atlas Mountains.  Search-and-rescue teams from the kingdom and from abroad kept digging through...
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