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Crosses are placed outside Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia in a tribute to the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse on the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. January 25 marks five years of the rupture of the dam at the Corrego do Feijao Mine, owned by the mining company Vale. It was holding more than 11 million cubic meters (nearly three billion gallons) of mining waste when it collapsed, unleashing a brown sea of sludge. IMAGES
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls a flood that killed thousands in Derna, Libya a symbol of the world's ills as he openS the annual General Assembly. "Even as we speak now, bodies are washing ashore from the same Mediterranean Sea where billionaires sunbathe on their super yachts," Guterres says, adding, "Derna is a sad snapshot of the state of our world -- the flood of inequity, of injustice, of inability to confront the challenges in our midst." SOUNDBITE
Images of the Libyan port city of Derna after last week's deadly flood that killed thousands and left thousands more homeless. Local officials, aid agencies and the World Health Organization are concerned dirty water and the lack of clean sanitation could cause an outbreak of disease. IMAGES
Tractors shift through rubble a week after a tsunami-sized flash flood devastated the Libyan coastal city of Derna. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES
The eastern Libyan city of Derna attemps to clear huge piles of debris that litter areas devastated in last week's deadly floods. Thousand were killed and least 40,000 people have been displaced across the north east of the country. IMAGES
An Emirati aid shipment arrives in Benghazi, Libya after a massive flood submerged the port city of Derna, killing thousands of people and washing many homes out to sea. IMAGES
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