Seven killed after migrant boat stranded in Med
Seven people were lost at sea and 41 others were brought to Italy鈥檚 Lampedusa island after a migrant boat got into difficulty in the Mediterranean, German NGO Sea-Watch said Wednesday...
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Record drought in Europe, Med in early August
More than half of Europe and the Mediterranean basin was affected by drought in the first ten days of August, according to an AFP analysis on Monday of European Drought Observatory data.
Italian authorities try to identify Lampedusa capsize victims
Italian authorities on Friday sought to identify the bodies of 27 people who died when two crowded boats sank off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa...
Med rescuers saves 1,75,000 people since 2015
Maritime rescue organisations said Wednesday they had pulled more than 1,75,000 people from the Mediterranean over the past 10 years, as waves of migrants sought to use the dangerous sea route to reach Europe...
54 migrants rescued from Mediterranean oil platform
Over 50 migrants were headed to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday after a charity ship rescued them from an abandoned oil platform in the Mediterranean, where one woman gave birth...
Dozens of underage migrants rescued in Mediterranean
Rescue ship Ocean Viking on Tuesday pulled 48 mostly underage migrants from the Mediterranean off the Libyan, the aid group that operates the vessel said on Wednesday...
Southern EU states call for ME ceasefire
Leaders from nine European countries around the Mediterranean Sea on Friday called at a summit in Cyprus for an end to fighting in Gaza and Lebanon.
Emergency warning in Mediterranean over migrants
German charity Sea-Eye on Tuesday said it had come to the rescue of migrant boats five times in 24 hours, which showed 鈥榯he state of emergency鈥� in the...
2 Bangladeshis rescued
They never thought they would end up in Europe by leaving their native Bangladesh...
NGO ship rescues 35 Bangladesh nationals off Malta
In the darkness, a shape emerged among the Mediterranean waves 鈥� around 30 men, huddled shoulder to shoulder in the hold of a fibreglass boat...
Bodies of 8 Bangladeshis killed in Tunisia boat capsize handed over
The bodies of eight Bangladeshis who were killed after a boat carrying them capsized near Tunisian coast while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe were handed over to their families on Friday...
Bodies of 8 Bangladeshis killed in Tunisia boat capsize arrive
The bodies of eight Bangladesh nationals who died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe and subsequently drowned near the coast of Tunisia arrived in the country on Thursday noon...
Bodies of Bangladeshis who died in Tunisia boat capsize to arrive Thursday
The bodies of eight Bangladesh nationals who died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe and subsequently drowned near the coast of Tunisia will arrive in the country Thursday afternoon.......
Playing Russian roulette with Middle Eastern oil
LAST September witnessed what used to be a truly rare weather phenomenon: a Mediterranean hurricane, or 鈥榤edicane.鈥� Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea simply didn鈥檛 get hot enough to produce hurricanes...