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Spain postpones summit while leader tests positive for COVID

The Spanish government says a planned meeting of the nine leaders of Europe’s Mediterranean countries will be postponed because Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez continues to test positive for COVID-19

The Independent UK

Spanish Vultures Released in Cyprus to Replenish Population

Some 15 Griffon vultures from Spain have been released into the wild in Cyprus to help revive the east Mediterranean island's population that's dropped to just 8-10 birds because of deliberate poisoning, conservationists said Wednesday. The LIFE with Vultures CY group said the large birds were initially brought to the…

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Spanish vultures released in Cyprus to replenish population

Conservationists say 15 Griffon vultures from Spain have been released into the wild in Cyprus to help revive the east Mediterranean island's population that’s dropped to just 8-10 birds because of deliberate poisoning

The Independent UK

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Quick Fix: Za'atar is the star in this Lebanese chicken recipe

Noticing so many eastern Mediterranean and Lebanese restaurants becoming popular, I was hungry for a quick dinner with their savory and aromatic flavors. Using za'atar found in the spice section of the market, I created this quick dinner with very little effort.

Tribune News Service

‘Bodies everywhere’: Survivors recount Lebanon boat disaster

Ninety-seven people have died after an asylum seeker boat from Lebanon capsized in the Mediterranean.

Al Jazeera

Love, determination and risking all to cross the Mediterranean

Sadia’s journey from Benin to Europe would see her brave a deadly migration route, and be separated from her husband.

Al Jazeera

Plane Overshoots Runway, Closes Airport in Southern France

An airport serving France's southern Mediterranean coast is closed indefinitely after a cargo plane overshot its runway on landing and finished nose-down in the water of an adjacent lake before dawn on Saturday. The three people aboard were rescued unharmed from the Aeropostale Boeing 737 that was laden with air…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Lebanon’s Northern Coasts Transform to Platform for Smuggling Migrants

Lebanon’s northern region has been transformed into a trafficking hub for migrants looking to escape the country on “death boats” that sail across the Mediterranean nation’s open waters. Smuggling migrants has become an organized and profitable crime pursued by Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian nationals. Lebanese authorities, with their modest capabilities,…

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Ancient shipwreck discovered 1,300 years after sinking in the Holy Land

The perfectly-preserved shipwreck discovered off the coast of Israel proves that traders from Mediterranean countries were unloading their goods in the Holy Land after the Islamic conquest in the 7th-century

Daily Mirror

Holy Land shipwreck reveals tenacity of ancient traders as empires shifted

An ancient shipwreck found off the shore of Israel and loaded with cargo from all over the Mediterranean shows that traders from the West still came to port even after the Islamic conquest of the Holy Land, researchers say.

Reuters

Israeli PM vows to begin production in contested gas field

Israel’s prime minister has vowed to begin production at a contested Mediterranean natural gas field “as soon as it is possible.”

The Independent UK

Spanish charity rescues 372 in central Mediterranean; 1 dead

The Spanish charity Open Arms has rescued 372 people seeking to cross the central Mediterranean Sea to Europe in unseaworthy boats in three operations

The Independent UK

Lebanese depositors storm banks amid historic economic crisis

Lebanese depositors, including one armed with a hunting rifle, broke into at least four banks Friday to demand their trapped savings, a sign of growing chaos in the small Mediterranean nation amid a historic economic meltdown.

France 24

Flight-free Malta? It’s easier than you might think

Reaching this Mediterranean island nation by sea makes for an exhilarating adventure, finds Lucie Grace

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Fuel Prices Skyrocket, Transportation Becomes a Luxury in Lebanon

The price of gasoline imports in Lebanon has turned into a daily nightmare for the Lebanese, who are left to suffer the brunt of a crippling economic crisis that has swept the Mediterranean nation since late 2019. The Central Bank said last year that it would stop providing dollars at…

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Rivals Türkiye and Greece Come Together for NATO Drill in Med

Amid an escalating war of words between Türkiye and Greece over disputes in the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean, both countries came together Tuesday to participate in an annual NATO naval exercise. The neighbors and historic regional rivals are among 12 alliance members taking part in Dynamic Mariner-Mavi Balina 22…

Evening Standard

A taste of real life: Why the Queen spent ‘happy days’ with Prince Philip in Malta

The Mediterranean island is the only place outside the UK that Queen Elizabeth has ever called home

Asharq Al-Awsat

Death Toll from Migrant Shipwreck off Tunisia Rises to 11

The death toll from a migrant shipwreck off Tunisia last week has risen to 11, most of them Tunisians, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, TAP state news agency said on Sunday. It added that five more bodies were recovered on Saturday night by Coast Guard and…

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Death toll from migrant shipwreck off Tunisia rises to 11

The death toll from a migrant shipwreck off Tunisia last week has risen to 11, most of them Tunisians, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, TAP state news agency said on Sunday.

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Claire Denis’s cultural highlights

The French director on being mesmerised by the film Memoria, and her love of Tindersticks, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and the Mediterranean

Radio France Internationale

World’s first zero-particle ship sets sail in the Mediterranean

The French ferry company La Méridionale this week launched its new environmentally friendly vessel, the Piana. Its engines are equipped with particle filters to cut air pollution – an innovation considered a world first in maritime transport.

Asharq Al-Awsat

More than 1,000 Evacuated as Türkiye Battles Wildfire

More than 1,000 people were evacuated as firefighters on Thursday battled a wildfire in southern Türkiye for a second day. The fire broke out in the district of Gulnar, in the Mediterranean coastal province of Mersin on Wednesday and spread to parts of the nearby district of Silifke, fanned by…

Radio France Internationale

French police shoot dead two people in separate incidents

A 22-year-old French woman was shot and killed in the western city of Rennes during an anti-drug operation on Wednesday, while a man was shot dead by police in the Mediterranean city of Nice following suspicious behaviour at the wheel of a vehicle.

Chicago Sun-Times

What goes into a Mediterranean diet, and how to get started

It’s rooted in the traditional habits of people in countries that border the Mediterranean Sea, where rates of heart disease tend to be lower and life expectancies after 45 have been among the highest in the world.

Evening Standard

Villa Le Blanc, Gran Meliá: a serene, sustainable oasis on the Menorcan coast

Emma Loffhagen checks in to Gran Melia’s first carbon neutral prototype

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