The Latest Breaking News from Red Sea

The Red Sea operations room rescued on Tuesday 37 people from drowning, including foreign tourists, after their tourist boat sank north of the Egyptian city of Hurghada in the Red Sea. The operations room received a Mayday that a tourist boat carrying the name “Carlton” sank north of Hurghada after…

New Zealand has an indirect but potentially significant strategic and political interest in Sudan’s unfolding conflict, as its oil tankers pass through the Red Sea. Jonathan Milne reports.

ACWA Power has signed water purchase agreements for the 600,000 cubic meter per day Rabigh 4 Independent Water Plant (IWP) in Saudi Arabia. Valued at around SAR 2.54 billion ($677 million), the reverse osmosis plant will serve Makkah and Madinah regions, which typically see a spike in demand during Ramadan…

It’s been so long since there was any cause for optimism in Yemen that you might want to cross your fingers before you read on: The likelihood of an environmental catastrophe in the Red Sea, one of the country’s many calamities, is abating.

It has been demonstrated that coral reefs can grow remarkably well on artificial substrates made from sunken battleships.

Saudi Arabia chose a signature international brand to implement the first wellness resort in the Triple Bay area, which is located within the Amaala project in the west of the Kingdom. Red Sea Global announced on Monday its partnership with Jayasom, saying that work was in full swing to receive…

Ship needed to transfer 1mn barrels of oil from stricken FSO Safer moored off the coast of Yemen

Egypt, home to ancient pyramids and Red Sea resorts, aims to boost tourism by up to 30% annually over the next five years, bringing in private firms to operate sites and inaugurating a huge museum around the end of 2023, its tourism minister said.

Israel committed to stop authorization of any settler outposts in the occupied West Bank for six months during a meeting on Sunday with Palestinian officials in Jordan when the sides pledged to prevent more violence. In a joint statement at the end of a meeting in the Red Sea resort…

Jordan's King Abdullah II told US President Joe Biden's top Middle East advisor attending an Israeli-Palestinian meeting on Sunday that efforts should be intensified to bring "calm and reduce escalation" in Palestinian territories, state media reported. Brett McGurk attended the meeting in the Red Sea port of Aqaba hosted by…

But sterling has fallen in value against some currencies which have seen strong sales growth, according to Post Office Travel Money.