Tag: mediterranean
Derna: 2300 killed, 5000 missing, flash floods wipe out quarter of Derna
Flash floods in eastern Libya killed almost 2,300 people in the Mediterranean coastal city of Derna alone, according to the Libyan emergency services on Tuesday.According…
Mediterranean: 41 migrants missing after new Mediterranean shipwreck
ROME: Forty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after being shipwrecked last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said, citing four survivors brought to…
Wildfires bring death and destruction to sun-scorched Mediterranean
RHODES/ALGIERS: Large areas of the Mediterranean sweltered under an intense summer heatwave on Tuesday and firefighters battled to put out blazes across the region. In…
Spain on alert for ‘extreme’ danger from heatwave
MADRID: Spain issued hot weather red alerts for three regions on Tuesday due to the “extreme” danger posed by scorching temperatures as firefighters made gains…
Macron urges end to plastic pollution at global talks
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday urged nations negotiating a world treaty against plastic pollution to put an end to today’s “globalised and unsustainable”…
Dozens of bodies float ashore in Libya after migrant boats sink
TRIPOLI: At least 57 bodies have been washed ashore after two migrant boats sank in the Mediterranean off different towns in western Libya, a coast…
Tunisian coast guard retrieves 31 bodies of migrants from sea
TUNIS: The Tunisian coast guard said on Monday it had recovered 31 bodies of African migrants who drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to…
Italy: Migrants in Italy warned on ‘ethnic replacement’
Rome: Italian minister Francesco Lollobrigida, one of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni‘s closest allies, sparked outrage Tuesday by warning against the “ethnic replacement” of Italians by…
Migrants Rescued: Migrants stranded on uninhabited Italian isle until rescue
ROME: The Italian Coast Guard on Monday rescued dozens of migrants who were stranded overnight on an uninhabited isle south of Sicily, Italian state TV…
Three dead as another migrant boat sinks off Greece
ATHENS: Three migrants died and more than 20 were feared missing after a second boat sank off the coast of Greece in just days, the…