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The Libyan Red Crescent says that the death toll from floods in the eastern Libyan city of Derna has soared to 11,300 DERNA, Libya -- The death toll in Libya's coastal city of Derna has soared to 11,300 as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent said Thursday. Marie el-Drese, the aid group's secretary-general, told The Associated Press by phone that a further 10,100 people are reported missing in the Mediterranean city. Health authorities previously put the death toll in Derna at 5,500. The storm also killed about 170 people elsewhere in the country. The flooding swept away entire families in Derna on Sunday night and exposed vulnerabilities in the oil-rich country that has been mired in co NFL ict since a 2011 uprising that toppled long-ruling dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Here's a look at where things stand: WHAT HAPPENED IN LIBYA? Daniel, an unusually strong Mediterranean storm, caused dea...

A human rights group says two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison BEIJING -- Two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison, Human Rights Watch said Monday, the latest in a crackdown by the ruling Communist Party on its critics. The rights group said Xu Zhiyong, 50, was sentenced to 14 years and Ding Jiaxi, 55, was given 12 years in prison under the vague charge of “subversion of state power.” Such proceedings are conducted under intense secrecy. “The cruelly farcical convictions and sentence s meted out to Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi show President Xi Jinping’s unstinting hostility towards peaceful activism,” Yaqiu Wang, the group ’s senior China researcher, was quoted as saying in a news release. The court in Shandong province, south of the capital Beijing, did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation. Xu and Ding are among a generation of Chinese who held out hope that t...