The migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking has rescued 203 people, including 67 minors, in recent days, its owner SOS Mediterranee said Sunday. The migrants came from Egypt, Gambia, Libya, South Sudan, Syria and Tunisia, the non-governmental organisation said in comments posted on Twitter.

Rescue ship picks up over 200 migrants in Mediterranean

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held talks with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias in Athens on Saturday. Both the countries discussed recent developments in the eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus and Libya.

India, Greece discuss developments in Eastern Mediterranean during Jaishankar's Athens visit

A state-run shipping company in Iran has said it would take legal action to identify the perpetrators of an attack on a container ship in the Mediterranean -- what it called 'terrorism and naval piracy'.

Iranian ship damaged in Mediterranean, Tehran alleges 'terror' attack

Authorities in Israel have cleared a Greek tanker of suspicion in relation to an oil spill that caused massive tar pollution on the Mediterranean coastline. It was seen as Israel's worst maritime pollution incident in decades.

Israel clears Greek tanker of suspicion over Mediterranean oil spill

Populations of marine molluscs have collapsed in recent decades in parts of the eastern Mediterranean as warming waters have made conditions unsuitable for native species, new research showed Wednesday.

Warming driving Eastern Mediterranean species collapse: study

"I lost my baby, where's my baby?" were the words of a migrant mother as she desperately searched while crying for her six-month child as their boat began to sink in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya on Wednesday.

Watch: Migrant mother cries for help as she searches six-month-old in sinking boat

The infant was among five migrants who perished after an inflatable dinghy laden with 116 people sank on Wednesday morning after setting sail from Libya.

Desperate cry of a mother in search of her 6-month-old baby at sea

Turkey’s proxy wars are growing in number. Turkey has reportedly supplied materials and fighters to Libya in a bid to change the course of the civil war. Erdogan provoked Greece in the eastern Mediterranean, and both countries were on the brink of a war.

Modern-day Turkey: Armed and reckless

The Greek government has welcomed a Turkish survey vessel's return to port from a disputed area of the eastern Mediterranean that has been at the heart of a summer stand-off between Greece and Turkey over energy rights.

Turkish survey vessel returns to port: Greece welcomes return of vessel

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday raised rhetoric on Greece standoff in Mediterranean, asking it to enter talks over disputed territorial claims or face the consequences.

Erdogan warns Greece over standoff in Mediterranean

All of the migrants on board a rescue ship funded by British street artist Banksy have been transferred to other vessels, the team behind the mission said. An Italian patrol vessel rushed to the stranded MV Louise Michel in the Mediterranean and took in 49 of the most vulnerable people on Saturday, after their pink-and-white ship carrying more than 200 passengers sent an urgent call for help.

All migrants moved off Banksy-funded rescue vessel stranded in Mediterranean

Germany on Thursday called for an end to naval exercises in the eastern Mediterranean Sea to allow space for talks between Greece and Turkey, at odds over gas resources and maritime borders.

Mediterranean war games must stop to allow talks: Germany

Athens is ready for a "significant de-escalation" in the Eastern Mediterranean provided Turkey halts its "provocative actions", Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Wednesday.

Greek Prime Minister offers 'de-escalation' if Turkey eases off in Eastern Mediterranean

Turkey said Wednesday it had conducted exercises with a US navy destroyer in the eastern Mediterranean, hours after its rival Greece began war games with France and EU allies nearby.

Turkey says conducted Mediterranean exercise with US

Turkey said on Tuesday it was ready for talks with Greece in their growing row over eastern Mediterranean natural gas without any preconditions. The olive branch came as the two uneasy NATO allies' navies conducted separate exercises close to each other just south of Crete in a mutual show of force.

Mediterranean row: Turkey says ready for talks with Greece without 'preconditions'

Turkey's big push into the Mediterranean featuring controversial gas drilling, tough rhetoric and warships is rooted in a grand vision of a "Blue Homeland" that takes over waters claimed by EU neighbours.

Turkey's bid to become maritime powerhouse unsettles Mediterranean

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Friday to step up the search for energy in the Mediterranean by the end of the year, despite tensions with Greece and the rest of the EU.

Turkey to step up Mediterranean energy exploration by year-end: Erdogan

A new geopolitical storm is brewing in the Mediterranean. Two factions are emerging in a potential conflict which could engulf large parts of Europe. On the one hand there are European countries like France, Cyprus and, Greece.

As Erdogan's Turkey militarises eastern Mediterranean, EU remains divided

The first Mediterranean cruise ship set sail on Sunday evening as Italy's coronavirus lockdown has been lifted. To this end, cruise ship passengers had their temperatures checked and they took COVID-19 tests so they could embark on the journey.

First Mediterranean cruise sets sail after Italy's coronavirus lockdown lifts

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that any attack on a Turkish ship exploring for oil and gas in disputed Mediterranean waters would incur a “high price” and suggested Turkey had already acted on that warning.

Erdogan says any attack on Turkish ship in Mediterranean dispute will exact 'high price'

Turkey`s navy has issued an advisory saying that the Turkish ship Oruc Reis will carry out a seismic survey in a disputed area in the eastern Mediterranean over the next two weeks, a step likely to revive tensions with neighbouring Greece.

Turkey's new seismic survey in Mediterranean set to revive Greek tensions

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday that the country has restarted a search for energy in the eastern Mediterranean, accusing neighbouring Greece of failing to keep its promises.

Turkey: Erdogan announces resuming eastern Mediterranean energy search

A nationally recognized marine life area in the French Mediterranean got covered with an orange-brown chemical sheet that spread over 15 acres of following a leak at a petrochemical plant in southern France, the local fire service said Friday.

Toxic chemical paints French Mediterranean region orange-brown

Limited human activity amid lockdown improved Mediterranean marine life

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