The Latest Breaking News from Mediterranean Sea

A subsidiary of Shell plc, BG International, signed a farm out agreement (FOA) with ExxonMobil Egypt to acquire a 100% stake in the Exxon Mobil-operated North East El-Amriya offshore area, Mediterranean Sea, also known as Block 3, a Shell statement said on Wednesday. "On completion of the transfer, BG will…

Lebanon's government Tuesday tasked the armed forces with investigating how an overpacked migrant boat capsized, a tragedy some survivors have blamed on the military. At least six people were killed late Saturday in the Mediterranean Sea off the northern port city of Tripoli in the country's deadliest such maritime incident…

More than 90 people in an overcrowded boat drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, a prominent humanitarian group said, in the latest tragedy involving migrants departing from North Africa to seek a better life in Europe. Doctors Without Borders said late Saturday the migrants were on a vessel that left Libya…

The flooding had become inevitable. Every winter, amid heavy rains and storms, the Mediterranean Sea would rise and spill over into fisherman Aziz Lasheen's low-lying village in Egypt's northern governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh. As water poured into the village of Mastroua it would destroy homes, saturate farmland with saltwater and…

The Egyptian Navy rescued last week ten crewmembers of a Lebanese cargo ship that sank off the coast of Alexandria in the Mediterranean Sea, an Egyptian military statement said. Spokesperson of the armed forces Colonel Gharib Abdelhafez said on his official page that as part of the continued efforts to…

Hungary’s foreign minister has praised Egypt’s efforts to stem the flow of Europe-bound migrants through its Mediterranean Sea shores

Naval forces from Egypt and Spain conducted joint military exercises as part of the Northern Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea with the participation of frigates from both countries, Egypt’s armed forces said on Thursday. “The drill is part of the Egyptian Armed Forces’ plan to upgrade the level of its…

Russian aircraft came close to three U.S. Navy planes in the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries over Russia's military buildup along its border with Ukraine.

The Russian military has deployed long-range nuclear-capable bombers and fighter jets carrying state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles to Syria for massive naval drills in the Mediterranean Sea amid the soaring tensions with the West over Ukraine