Understand the plight of migrants, pope urges ahead of Cyprus visit (Video)
Ahead of his visit to Cyprus and Greece, Pope Francis said on Saturday his thoughts were with those fleeing wars and poverty who died in...
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Greece, Turkey snipe over maritime borders (Update 2)
Turkey warned Greece on Tuesday it would not tolerate a shift in Greece‘s maritime border, drawing a sharp rebuke from Athens that it would decide when and how...
Mediterranean ‘by far world’s deadliest border’ for migrants: IOM
More than 33,000 migrants have died at sea trying to reach European shores this century, making the Mediterranean “by far the world’s deadliest border”, the...
Rescued migrants say lucky to dodge Libyan coastal clampdown
Migrants rescued in the Mediterranean last week said they had been lucky to dodge increased sea and police patrols along the Western coast of Libya that have...
Italy rescues 484 migrants in Mediterranean, finds 7 bodies
Rescuers saved 484 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean on Saturday and found the bodies of seven men who had died in the attempt...
Five migrants die in Mediterranean, 750 rescued
Rescuers saved around 750 migrants from rubber and wooden boats in the central Mediterranean but recovered five dead bodies during the operations, the Italian coastguard...
Mediterranean warming fast, deserts may spread in Europe
Global warming is on track to disrupt the Mediterranean region more than any droughts or heatwaves in the past 10,000 years, turning parts of southern...
25 migrants found dead in rubber boat in Mediterranean
Twenty-five migrants were found dead in the bottom of a rubber boat in the Mediterranean, aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Wednesday, as...
Egypt arrests four crew members of capsized migrant boat
Egyptian authorities have arrested four crew members of a boat carrying almost 600 migrants which capsized off Egypt’s coast, killing at least 43, judicial sources...
Less debt or austerity not really matter for Europe’s south, economist says
Given the design flaws of the European single currency, which brought economies with diverging economic dynamics under a single monetary policy, less competitive member states...
Over 1,500 sea turtle nests in Cyprus so far this year (Updated)
To date this year, Cyprus can boast having over sea 1,500 turtle nests as part of a protection programme considered one of the best...
Bodies wash up in Libya as migrant toll climbs – IOM
The bodies of 120 migrants have washed up on the shores of Libya in the past 10 days, not from previously known shipwrecks in the...
German cabinet backs expanded role in Mediterranean mission
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet agreed on Wednesday to expand the role of the German navy in the Mediterranean Sea to include efforts to stop arms...
Russia: We will respond to entry of U.S. naval vessel into Black Sea
The Russian Foreign ministry said Moscow would respond to a U.S. naval ship’s entry into the Black Sea with unspecified measures, saying it and other...
Greece rescues hundreds of migrants in sinking off Crete, recovers three bodies
Hundreds of migrants were rescued from a sinking ship on Friday in a massive operation in the southern Mediterranean off the island of Crete, the...
EgyptAir black box search zone narrowed after signal detected – source
The search zone for the crashed EgyptAir jet has been narrowed to 2 km from 5 km after a vessel picked up a signal from...
Drop in migrant deaths in Mediterranean is hopeful sign, migration body says
Fewer migrants are dying as they try to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, which may reflect better management of refugee flows and swifter rescue operations,...
Egyptian military finds debris of crashed airliner
By Ahmed Aboulenein The Egyptian military found the personal belongings of passengers and other debris from an EgyptAir jet floating in the Mediterranean, Cairo said...
Cyprus’ recent drought was worst in 900 years
A new NASA study has found that the drought which began in 1998 in the eastern Mediterranean Levant region, comprising Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine,...
NATO to showcase military force in Mediterranean
By Robin Emmott NATO and its allies will open their biggest military exercise in more than a decade on Monday in a show of strength...
