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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.