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Latest news on the historic body of water surrounded by southern Europe, north Africa and west Asia

Scientists found sperm whales in the Mediterranean had learnt to adapt their dialects. Photo: Asociación Tursiops
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Whales learn to become 'bilingual' by adapting dialects

EuropeJune 24, 2026
A large screen displaying vessel movements in the Strait of Hormuz on a ship-tracking website last week. AFP

The twain shall meet: Why this week's Gulf-Mediterranean summit in Rome matters

CommentJune 24, 2026
EU Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Suica delivers a speech on the Pact for the Mediterranean at the EU headquarters in Brussels in October. AFP

EU official says strategic agreement with UAE is vital to new Mediterranean pact

MENADecember 12, 2025
Migrants attempting to cross from Libya to Europe being rescued in the Mediterranean. AP

Syrian accused of smuggling people from Libya for $6,000 arrested in UK

UKNovember 19, 2025
Ahmed Ebid and an image of a boat found on a phone he used. Photo: NCA

Egyptian who ran $16m people-smuggling operation from London jailed for 25 years

EuropeMay 20, 2025
The moment Ahmed Ebid was arrested by National Crime Agency officers. Photo: NCA

Egyptian ‘made $15.5m’ from people-smuggling operation, court hears

UKMarch 18, 2025
German frigate Hessen fired at drones during a two-month operation in Red Sea waters under attack by the Houthi rebels in Yemen. AFP

Germany extending military missions from Red Sea to southern Mediterranean

EuropeJanuary 03, 2025
Jmayl Malekh and his wife Safia survive on fishing, in the Tunisian town of Borj Salhi. Hasan Mrad / The National
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Residents of isolated Tunisian town bond with the sea to survive

MENAJuly 12, 2024
A construction site at the new Alamein city, on the North Coast, 260 km northwest of Cairo, in August 2023. EPA

Egypt launches $21bn mega-project in new partnership

MENAJuly 03, 2024
The Italian coastguard has recovered 14 more bodies. AP

Italy migrant shipwreck toll rises to 34 as more bodies found

EuropeJune 21, 2024
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands after a joint news conference in Ankara, Turkey. AP

Could Turkey’s conservative turn roil the suddenly calm Aegean?

CommentMay 15, 2024
Migrants are helped off a partially deflated rubber dinghy by rescuers in the central Mediterranean on Wednesday. SOS Mediterranee via AP

Scores of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean off coast of Libya

EuropeMarch 14, 2024
The USS Gerald R Ford sails alongside a refuelling tanker in the Mediterranean. US Naval Forces Central Command / US 6th Fleet / Reuters

US aircraft carrier Gerald R Ford to leave region after extended deployment

MENAJanuary 01, 2024
The Mari-B platform in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Israel. AFP

Israel’s biggest gas supplier plans further Mediterranean development

EnergyDecember 08, 2023
An overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean Sea near the shores of Tripoli, north Lebanon. AP Photo

Lebanon rescues more than 100 migrants from Mediterranean

LebanonOctober 07, 2023
Crew members of the Geo Barents migrant rescue ship, operated by Doctors Without Borders, distribute life jackets to a group of 61 migrants on a wooden boat in international waters off the coast of Libya, in the central Mediterranean Sea, on September 28. Reuters

Migrants to Europe deserve a better fate

EditorialOctober 04, 2023
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