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LISBON, July 29 (Reuters) – High temperatures across Europe this month have unleashed a prolonged marine heatwave in the Mediterranean Sea that

Last week, the UN Panel of Experts on Libya learned that the ship MV Victory RoRo was transporting vehicles in breach of the UN arms embargo. In response,

By Laura Millan Lombrana and Eric Roston (Bloomberg) On June 19, a day after thermometers rose to record highs across several parts of Spain and France, a

(Reuters)–A massive fuel oil leak occurred last week from a power plant in Baniyas, located on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, according to naval tracking

By Admiral James Stavridis (Bloomberg) As a Greek-American who lived in Athens for three years, and as a U.S. Navy mariner, I got to know the eastern

By Lefteris Papadimas and Tuvan Gumrukcu ATHENS/ANKARA, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Germany’s top diplomat said after whirlwind meetings in Turkey and

By Ahmed Eljechtimi and Ulf Laessing KSAR SGHIR, Morocco, June 26 (Reuters) – Morocco will open new terminals at Tanger Med port on Thursday, allowing it

By Michele Kambas NICOSIA, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Cyprus on Sunday accused the Turkish military of obstructing a ship contracted by Italian oil company

By Antonella Cinelli and Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) – The chief prosecutor of a Sicilian court said on Friday that a task force is looking into whether

By Andrea Shalal BERLIN, June 13 (Reuters) – The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower entered the Mediterranean late on Monday, the U.S. Navy

The  192-meter Hellenic Seaways ferry Nissi Rosos filmed making a quick turnaround at the port of Chios with the ANEK Lines’ ferry Eleftherios

  By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) – In October last year, bulk carrier CS Caprice was shipping a cargo of barley across the Mediterranean

  GENEVA, Sept 8 (Reuters) – The U.N. refugee agency expects the number of refugees fleeing across the Mediterranean to Europe to hit 400,000 this

    By Anthony DiPaola (Bloomberg) — Eni SpA discovered a “super giant” natural gas field offshore Egypt in what the Italian oil company

  By Philip Pullella and Steve Scherer ROME, Aug 5 (Reuters) – A boat packed with up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast

Italy's navy said on Thursday it believed it had found the wreck of a boat that sank last month killing up to 900 migrants off the coast of Libya, the

Italy's navy said on Thursday it believed it had found the wreck of a boat that sank last month killing up to 900 migrants off the coast of Libya, the

The EU is considering sending warships to the Libyan coast to combat oil and arms smugglers but fears that could encourage more migrants to take to sea in the

Hundreds of people desperate to be rescued from a packed migrant boat in the Mediterranean pushed to one side when they saw a ship approach, capsizing the

About 400 migrants died in an attempt to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized, survivors said on Tuesday, the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean