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The UAW launches a historic strike against the Big 3 automakers. Florida's health department touts its own COVID booster recommendations. The death toll soars to 11,300 from flooding in Libya.
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Death toll soars to 11,300 from flooding in Libyan coastal city of Derna
Another 10,100 are reported missing from flooding caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel, the Libyan Red Crescent says.
A psychiatrist's view from Libya as the storm death toll reaches 5,000
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Huda Akram, who is based in Benghazi, about the devastating storm that collapsed two dams and killed at least 5,000 people in Libya.
A Moroccan brother and sister see if their ancestral home survived the earthquake
A brother and sister return to their hometown in the mountains of Morocco to see all that's lost after the earthquake.
Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield meets with Sudanese refugees ahead of U.N. meeting
More than 400,000 refugees have fled violence in Sudan and crossed into Chad. NPR's Michel Martin joined U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield on visit to a refugee camp near the border.
Aid groups rush to Libya after catastrophic flooding
More information is emerging about the vast scale and loss of life in Libya as aid groups begin arriving after the storm and catastrophic flooding.
Morning news brief
Republicans begin a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Russian President Putin is meeting with his North Korean counterpart. Aid groups rush to Libya after catastrophic flooding.
Whatever happened to the project to crack the wealthy world's lock on mRNA vaccines?
Lower-income countries did not get the COVID vaccines they needed. So the World Bank and other partners tapped a South African company to cook up the (undisclosed) recipe for the Moderna mRNA vaccine.
Rival factions are making a storm-driven natural disaster in Libya worse
Officials say hundreds are dead and thousands feared missing after a storm unleashes massive flooding in underserved and war-divided towns in Libya.
How can residents in Morocco guard against the next deadly earthquake?
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Mehrdad Sasani, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, about construction concerns in Morocco's earthquake zone.