Libya and Morocco rescue challenges, Kim in Russia, Putin praises Musk, Mahsa Amini's legacy

<p>This what happens when a failed state meets global warming. An estimated one-tenth of Derna's population is still missing after last Sunday's failure of two 1970s-era dams in the Libyan city. Libya has been divided in half over the past decade by rival factions, meaning that no authority issued warnings over Storm Daniel, which drew on record water temperatures in the Mediterranean to pummel the country with rainfall. Libya's disaster came a day after Morocco's biggest earthquake in a century.</p> <p>Nearly 3,000 people were killed in last Saturday's tremor in the Atlas mountains. Marrakesh was mostly spared, but its remote villages were hit hard, with an estimated 50,000 people left homeless. Nearly a week laters, locals from villages like Awfour are mostly making do on their own. Morocco's king of nearly a quarter century, Mohammed VI, was in France when the quake struck. Images of the monarch by victims' bedsides in Marrakesh surfaced on Tuesday. He's since been filmed chairing emergency cabinet meetings.</p><p>Ukraine's pain could be North Korea's gain. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un hopped aboard his armoured train for a cross-border trip to Russia's far east for a space and aeronautics conference, visit to a jet fighter factory, and meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The apparent deal in the making seems fairly straightforward: Moscow offers military satellite technology to Pyongyang, while North Korea supplies bullets for Russia's war in Ukraine.</p><p>While in the far eastern city of Komolosk for that space technology conference, the Russian president heaped praise on Elon Musk, the private entrepreneur whose SpaceX supplies NASA.</p><p>A year ago this Saturday, 22-year old Mahsa Amini died at the hands of Iran's morality police after she was picked up for improperly wearing the headscarf, which has been mandatory since the 1979 revolution. Her death was a spark that ignited a year of almost continuous protests.             .</p><p><em>Produced by Alssandro Xenos, Rebecca Gnignati and Imen