The Latest Breaking News from The Red Sea

Attacks on medical facilities and personnel have pushed Gaza’s overstretched health system to a “point of no return”, the Red Cross said on Friday. The warning came hours after Al-Shifa, the biggest hospital in the Strip, came under bombardment, according to the World Health Organization. Footage from the besieged Palestinian…

People who have evacuated to the southern Israeli port hunker down and wait for war to reach them.

In 2011, pirates carried out 212 attacks in a vast area spanning Somali waters, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, actions that the World Bank said cost the world economy US$18 billion a year.

When civil war broke out in 2015, a leaky oil tanker in the Red Sea became a crisis point – triggering a nail-biting series of events that saw special negotiations between the Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed government, and the UN begging the public for help – and getting it from…

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Project Sea clears rubbish from Aqaba’s reefs, which is recycled into bags by Palestinian refugees – a female-led scheme in a country where women must still fight for equality

Martin Richardson had been enjoying his time in Egypt, swimming in the Red Sea, when he was set up by a mako shark that bit him five times, leaving him thinking he was going to die

Three people from the UK died when a dive boat caught fire in the Red Sea

Three British nationals who went missing after a diving boat caught fire in the Red Sea have died, a UK-based tour operator said.

Three British tourists are still missing after the Hurricane caught fire to its stern whilst sailing off the Red Sea coast of Marsa Alam on Sunday, with footage showing passengers jump to safety

A scuba diving tourist boat carrying 29 people, 12 of them English and 14 locals, was headed to the Marsa Alam region of Egypt in the southern part of the Red Sea, when it burst into flames