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Norways sovereign wealth fund, the worlds largest, raised the size of the portfolio of Iberdrolas renewable power plants it wants to invest in to 1 gigawatt, Cinco Dias newspaper reported on...

The euro rose on Tuesday following a report that indicated the European Central Bank may soon start discussing how to drain some of the excess liquidity in the banking system, while the yen wallowed...

-Journalists were ordered out of the devastated eastern Libyan city of Derna on Tuesday, the morning after demonstrators staged a rally and torched the home of the ousted mayor in fury over the... -September 19, 2023 at 06:47 am EDT - MarketScreener

BAGHDAD -Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in New York on Monday and received an invitation from U.S. President Joe Biden to visit the White... -September 19, 2023 at 02:23 pm EDT - MarketScreener

A week after the flood that swept the centre of the city of Derna into the sea, families are still coping with the unbearable losses of their dead - and haunted by the unknown fates of the missing. Ashour's eldest sister is also gone, and her daughter too. The centre of Derna is a wasteland, with stray dogs standing listlessly on muddy mounds where buildings once stood.

I lost my daughter. Her mother is convinced that she is still alive. I am convinced that she is dead, says Ahmed Ashour, 62. The girl left me with a 3-month-old baby.... -September 18, 2023 at 05:56 am EDT - MarketScreener

DERNA, Libya (Reuters) -Sabreen Blil was on her hands and knees atop the rubble of her brother's house, the wind beating at her black robe as she clawed with her bare hands at the flattened masonry in hope of somehow digging to the family buried below. A week after the flood that swept the centre of the city of Derna into the sea, families are still coping with the unbearable losses of their dead - and haunted by the unknown fates of the missing. The centre of Derna is a wasteland, with str...

Libyan authorities demanded an investigation on Thursday into whether human failings were to blame for thousands of deaths in the worst natural disaster in the country's modern history, as survivors searched for loved ones washed away by floods. A torrent unleashed by a powerful storm burst dams on Sunday night and hurtled down a seasonal riverbed that bisects the eastern city of Derna, washing multi-storey buildings into the sea with sleeping families inside. Derna Mayor Abdulmenam al-Ghai...

Libyan authorities demanded an investigation on Thursday into whether human failings were to blame for thousands of deaths in the worst natural disaster in the country's modern history, as survivors searched for loved ones washed away by floods. A torrent unleashed by a powerful storm burst dams on Sunday night and hurtled down a seasonal riverbed that bisects the eastern city of Derna, washing multi-storey buildings into the sea with sleeping families inside. Derna Mayor Abdulmenam al-Ghai...

China became the first country on Wednesday to formally name a new ambassador to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, after its envoy presented credentials at a ceremony in Kabul. The Taliban have not been officially recognised by any foreign government, and Beijing did not indicate whether Wednesday's appointment signalled any wider steps towards formal recognition of the Taliban. "This is the normal rotation of China's ambassador to Afghanistan, and is intended to continue ad...