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Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has died, according to Italian media reports. Messina Denaro, who was caught in January after spending 30 years...

The village of Derevyannoe in Karelia, northwest Russia, has a well-kept feel to it. Apple trees heavy with fruit and tidy vegetable gardens, boats...

The story of 11-year-old Yousif can only be described as a devastating miracle. While the floodwaters here in Derna swept his entire family out...

Almost 900 buildings in Libya’s coastal city of Derna were completely destroyed in last week’s catastrophic flooding, officials have revealed. A tally by the...

Italian leader Giorgia Meloni has demanded Brussels step up to help her country deal with a surge in migrants. The country’s prime minister said...

Turning the policy spotlight to immigration will always be a risk for a Labour leader, and this week’s announcement proved no different. This weekend,...

It keeps being said that everyone in Derna has lost someone. A city of around 100,000 people where around 10% of the population has...

The central dock in the port of Lampedusa now stands at the meeting point between the developed and the developing world – a point...

The chief prosecutor of Libya’s eastern government has said he will prosecute those responsible for the neglect of two dams in Derna as the...

On the face of it there is a clear explanation for the tragedy in Derna. Two dams across the river that runs through the...

Ukraine’s counteroffensive is now into its fourth month. Kyiv’s forces, bolstered by Western tanks and weapons, are putting pressure on Russian positions but have...

Ukraine has confirmed that British and French cruise missiles – fired from either wing of a Ukrainian bomber – were used in a major...

Locals now call Wadi Derna “the dam of death”. In a moment’s notice, the structure unleashed tens of millions of cubic metres of floodwater...

A potential cholera outbreak could add to misery in the Libyan city of Derna, where the sheer number of people dead or unaccounted for...

Luis Rubiales has been given a restraining order after sexual assault allegations by Jenni Hermoso, the footballer he kissed at the Women’s World Cup...

Storm Daniel was Greece’s worst storm in recorded history but for Libya it would trigger a disaster of unimaginable scale. Sky’s Data and Forensics...

The sheer numbers of people dead or unaccounted for in the Libyan city of Derna is overwhelming survivors, who say they had minutes to...

“They killed my brother, and now they’re coming for us too.” These are words from inside Iran that its rulers do not want the...

The Abraham Accords, when they were signed three years ago today, were a major step forward for peace in the Middle East. For the...