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The death toll from floods in eastern Libya is expected to soar dramatically, with 10,000 people reported missing, the Red Cross warns. "The death toll is huge, it might reach thousands," says Tamer Ramadan of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies told reporters in Geneva via video link from Tunis. SOUNDBITE
The United States has now recorded more than 100,000 coronavirus-related deaths, Johns Hopkins University reports -- a somber milestone and by far the highest total in the world. IMAGES
Brazil, the hardest-hit Latin American country in the coronavirus pandemic, has surpassed 10,000 deaths, according to figures released Saturday by the Ministry of Health. The country has now recorded 10,627 deaths and 155,939 confirmed cases. VIDEOGRAPHIC
The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has soared past 50,000 in the United States based on official sources. ANIMATED VIDEO
More than 180,000 people in the world have died from the novel coronavirus, nearly two-thirds of them in Europe, since it emerged in China last December, according to an AFP tally based on official sources. ANIMATED VIDEO
France's Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon announces that more than 20,000 people have now died from the coronavirus in the country, as tentative signs grow that the epidemic is steadying. SOUNDBITE