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    Video caption: Khartoum: Fire guts landmark skyscraper

    The Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company Tower had been engulfed in flames in the Sudan's capital.

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    Video caption: Libya floods: 'All that's left is rubble and dirt and destruction'

    The BBC's Anna Foster describes the devastation in the Libyan city of Derna after floods a week ago.

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    Video caption: Libya flood: 'There's a smell of decay and death in the air'

    The BBC's Anna Foster is in Libya, a week on from devastating floods in the region.

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    Video caption: New Zealand 71-3 Namibia: All Blacks run in 11 tries but Ethan de Groot sent off

    New Zealand stormed to their 50th win at the Rugby World Cup, running in 11 tries to thrash Namibia, but lost Ethan de Groot to a late red card for a dangerous collision.

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    Video caption: Drone footage shows level of destruction in Derna

    Video footage from the city of Derna shows wide-scale destruction following Libya's deadliest storm in decades.

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    Video caption: Libya: BBC correspondent arrives in flood-hit Derna

    The BBC's Anna Foster describes the devastation on the ground in the Libyan city hit by a flood catastrophe.