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Mediterranean Ships Find 5 Dead, Rescue over 1,100 Migrants

Italian vessels have recovered five bodies and rescued 674 people packed on a fishing boat adrift in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast, the Italian Coast Guard said Sunday, while European charities reported saving more than 500 more. Some of the survivors had to be plucked from the sea in…

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Mediterranean ships find 5 dead, rescue over 1,100 migrants

Ships in the Mediterranean Sea have rescued over 1,100 people struggling to reach Europe in rickety smugglers' boats and found five bodies

The Independent UK

Almost 700 migrants rescued off the Italian coast, 5 found dead

Almost 700 migrants, including five dead bodies, were rescued on Saturday off the southern coast of Italy, a coastguard statement said on Sunday, as flows of migrants crossing the Mediterranean increase during favourable sea conditions.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 23 July 2022

The idyllic summer on the Mediterranean is a thing of the past. Across the Iberian Peninsula forest fires frustrated the best efforts of firefighters. London melted under the oppression. Records tumbled everywhere.

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Smoldering Beirut Port Silo Risks Total Collapse amid Fire

Lebanon's prime minister on Friday warned that the ruin of a massive grain silo risks total collapse due to an ongoing fire that's expanding amid the summer heat at the Beirut port where a devastating blast two years ago tore through the Mediterranean city. A fire in the structure has…

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Newcastle chef's first restaurant will bring a taste of the Mediterranean to Jesmond

Lovage will open in the former Sale Pepe in Jesmond after licence is granted by Newcastle City Council

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Paleo diet and health benefits of switching - including reduced risk of cancer

The Paleo diet, which resembles what humans used to heat hundreds of years ago can reduce the risk of a number of serious illnesses,

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Brit family facing staggering £45k bill after baby born 16 weeks early on Cyprus holiday

Jan and Bethany Cleathero thought they had another trimester to go before welcoming their third child Molly into the world, but she arrived during their Mediterranean holiday

Daily Mirror

Explainer: How climate change drives heatwaves and wildfires

How climate change drives heatwaves and wildfires in Europe

Reuters

Paleo diet reduces risk of cancer and diabetes - and helps weight loss for a longer life

Adopting a way of eating that can last a lifetime and positively affect that lifespan may be easier and more delicious than you thought. The paleo diet is a basic way of eating inspired by our ancient ancestors

Daily Mirror

How to sleep in a heatwave as drought officially declared in UK

Here health experts have offered some tips on how to create the conditions for a good night's sleep in the heat as a drought has officially been declared in the UK

Daily Mirror

Egypt Seeks to Strengthen Naval Arsenal to Protect Maritime Borders, Secure Navigation

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met on Sunday with Peter Lürssen, owner and chairman of the German shipbuilding company, Lürssen, as part of Egypt’s plan to develop its maritime arsenal, raise its manufacturing capabilities, protect its maritime borders, and secure navigation and investments in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.…

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Keto vs. Mediterranean diet: Which is the best choice for diabetics?

The Mediterranean diet and the ketogenic, or keto, diet have both received praise over the past few years for their abilities to help people lose and maintain weight, as well as cutting blood sugar levels in people with prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes.

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France Braces for Record Temperatures

France was bracing Monday for the peak of the heatwave gripping the country, with crushing temperatures expected from the Mediterranean as far up as Brittany in the northwest. Forecasters have put 15 departments across the country on the highest state of alert for extreme temperatures, including Gironde in the southwest…

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Vegetarian diets may be better for the planet – but the Mediterranean diet is the one omnivores will actually adopt

What we eat and how we produce food matters. Food systems are responsible for more than a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The Independent UK

Tom Tugendhat calls deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda ‘a totem’ but would let plan go ahead

Tory leadership contender wants Navy ships in Mediterranean to ‘close down roots’ of trafficking – but says hardline policy should be given ‘a bit more time’

Wales Online

RAF and French engage in 'dogfights' over the Mediterranean to simulate air combat

The practice sessions took place over the Mediterranean with exercised hailed by both as 'extremely valuable'

Zenger

Jawsome Speed: World’s Fastest Shark Cruising Spanish Coast

The world’s fastest shark, which can strike at nearly 50 miles per hour, has been spotted prowling the Spanish coast close to Barcelona.

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Israel to Sell Haifa Port to India’s Adani Ports, Gadot Group for $1.2 Billion

Israel said on Thursday it will sell Haifa Port, a major trade hub on its Mediterranean coast, to winning bidders Adani Ports of India and local chemicals and logistics group Gadot for 4.1 billion shekels ($1.18 billion). Gadot and Adani made it to the end of a two-year tender process…

Daily Mirror

Harrowing image shows dead sea turtle on beach covered with bits of plastic bags

Sea turtles cannot regurgitate plastic meaning their guts become blocked, causing them to die of starvation. Nearly all species of sea turtle are classified as endangered

Daily Mirror

Fishermen catch giant 16ft-long sea creature considered omen of coming disaster

Oarfish have long been considered as an omen for oncoming tsunamis and earthquakes by the Japanese people and live in the Mediterranean Atlantic from California to Chile

The Independent UK

Storm knocks $67m US fighter jet off aircraft carrier into Mediterranean

The incident on the USS Harry S Truman is now under investigation

Reuters

Firefighters, aircraft fight blaze near France's Mediterranean coast

Airborne French firefighters and hundreds of emergency crew managed to bring a wildfire near the Mediterranean coast under control on Friday, although it will take days to extinguish the blaze, local authorities said.

The Independent UK

Teen saves four-month-old baby from Mediterranean shipwreck that killed 30: ‘I went to help people’

Both mother and baby evacuated to Malta as Togo teen says he helped because he was ‘a good swimmer’

The Independent UK

Rescued sea turtles in Israel released back to the wild

Over a dozen endangered sea turtles that were rescued after suffering major injuries in the Mediterranean scuttled their way over a beach in Israel after months of medical care

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