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D. The storm, called Daniel, swept across the Mediterranean Sea after killing more than a dozen people as it ravaged Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria.
A. Most Libyans live near the Mediterranean coast at the the northern end of the county. The the extremely hot and dry Libyan Desert covers the rest of the country. With rival governments ruling the western and eastern sections of Libya, the nation’s infrastructure, like the failed dams near Derna, has been neglected. In one day, the storm dropped 250 times the amount of rain the region usually gets in all of September.
C. The discovery of Africa’s largest proven oil reserves in the 1950s and soaring oil prices gave Libya a gross domestic product per person higher than many developed nations in the 1980s. The oil wealth paid for huge infrastructure projects, including the now-collapsed dams that were built in the 1970s.
B. An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 on the Richter scale left nearly 3,000 people dead and more than 5,600 injured in Morocco on the northwest corner of Africa.