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Prince Harry and Meghan’s secretive Mediterranean honeymoon revealed

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Prince Harry

Prince Harry and Meghan’s secretive Mediterranean honeymoon revealed. Harry explains: “We kept the details of our honeymoon a secret.” In his memoir, Harry continues: “We were exhausted from the wedding preparations.”  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s covert honeymoon comes up. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex flew to the Mediterranean to unwind after their wedding, … Read more

Almost 29,000 migrants dies trying to reach Europe

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Almost 29,000 migrants dies trying to reach Europe

More than 29,000 individuals had died travelling to Europe since 2019, with 5,000 of those deaths occurring in the previous two years. “Increasing numbers of deaths seen on routes across the Mediterranean, on land borders to Europe, and within the continent.” The Central Mediterranean remains the deadliest migration route, where 2,836 migrants and refugees have … Read more

Eleven migrants die in recent maritime accident in Tunisia

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maritime accident in Tunisia

Tunisia’s coastguard saved 14 people after the boat, which was carrying 37 migrants to Italy, dropped on Tuesday. According to Frontex, there were 52,000 “irregular entries” via the central Mediterranean route between January and August. The 1,033 migrants classed as dead or missing, 960 are alleged to have drowned.   At least 11 persons died … Read more

Less chickpeas, means more difficult to find hummus and cheap protein

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chickpeas

Chickpeas are made into hummus, flour, soups, stews, and curries. They are also key to the diets of people in India and the Middle East. Poor weather and war have hurt supplies of chickpeas, driving up food prices. Chickpeas on U.S. grocery shelves jumped 12% from last year, nearly 17% higher than prior to the … Read more

New Iranian oil tanker arrives in Syria: media

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Iranian oil tanker
  • An Iranian oil tanker arrived in the Syrian port of Baniyas on Monday.
  • It is the third tanker to arrive in recent weeks, according to Tasnim news agency.
  • Syria has been ravaged by over a decade of civil war that has cost hydrocarbons sector billions.

An Iranian oil tanker arrived in the Syrian port of Baniyas on Monday, the third in recent weeks, according to the Iranian news agency Tasnim.

According to Tasnim, the Iranian tanker arrived Saturday at the northwestern Syrian port on the Mediterranean, following the establishment of a new line of credit between the two countries.

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Israel’s Yair Lapid condemns Hezbollah in first cabinet meeting as PM

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Yair Lapid
  • Israel says it intercepted three drones launched by Hezbollah.
  • The drones were headed towards an offshore gas field in the Mediterranean.
  • The area is subject of ongoing US-mediated maritime talks.

 

Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid accused Hezbollah of undermining Lebanon’s efforts to reach an agreement on their disputed energy-rich maritime border, On the eve of his first cabinet meeting.

Lapid, who is still Israel’s foreign minister, took over as prime minister on Friday from Naftali Bennett, his coalition partner in the now-defunct eight-party coalition.

On Saturday, Israel’s army said it had intercepted three drones launched by Hezbollah that were headed towards an offshore gas field in the Mediterranean, near a disputed area that is the subject of US-mediated maritime talks.

“Hezbollah is continuing on the path of terrorism and is hurting Lebanon’s ability to reach an agreement on a maritime border,” Lapid said.

Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement confirmed it had launched drones towards the Mediterranean’s Karish gas field.

Israel said the drones, which were not armed, were downed by a fighter jet and missiles launched from a warship as they headed towards the offshore area.

Israel and previous United Nations maps put Karish within Israel’s maritime borders, and not in the disputed area subject to ongoing negotiations.

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Charity rescue ship issues ultimatum to Italy

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Italy

Charity ship carrying nearly 100 people was rescued from the Mediterranean. It is carrying 92 people rescued in two operations. Italian NGO Mediterranea first requested a port on Tuesday. A charity ship carrying nearly 100 people rescued from the Mediterranean issued an ultimatum to Italy On Wednesday. threatening to dock without permission if it was … Read more

Moroccan navy rescued 385 migrants

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moroccan navy

Moroccan navy rescued 385 migrants on their way to Spain last week. The migrants, who include women and minors, are largely from Sub-Saharan Africa. They were travelling in many inflatable boats in the Strait of Gibraltar, which divides the African continent from Europe. RABAT: Moroccan navy rescued 385 migrants on their way to Spain last … Read more

Israeli military practice long-range air strikes

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Israeli

The Israeli military claimed Wednesday that dozens of its aircraft practiced long-range attacks, a thinly veiled hint at a prospective attack on regional competitor Iran. The exercise, which took place a day earlier over the Mediterranean, “involved long-range flight, aerial refuelling and striking distant targets,” according to the army. It did not disclose any other information. … Read more

Grain stolen by Russians is already in the Mediterranean

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According to the Ukrainian defense ministry’s intelligence service, grain taken by Russian troops in occupied areas is already being shipped outside. A “substantial portion of the grain stolen from Ukraine is on dry cargo ships under the Russian flag in the Mediterranean.” Grain and sunflower seeds in storage are being prepared for shipping to Russia … Read more

Spain’s Andalusia calls regional vote in test for PM

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Andalusia

The leader of Spain’s maximum populous region, Andalusia, on Monday, called a local election for June 19 that could see a ways-right birthday party Vox make profits and step in addition into the political mainstream. The polls inside the southern location could be a test for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s minority authorities beforehand of … Read more

France’s Sister Andre claims title of world’s oldest person

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France

A French nun who currently celebrated her 118th birthday together with her conventional port-and-chocolate cocktail is now the arena’s oldest known individual, following the loss of life announced Monday of a Japanese lady year her senior. Lucile Randon, called Sister Andre, changed into born in southern France on February 11, 1904, when World War I was still … Read more

Oleg Tinkov billionaire crash Putin’s ‘insane war’ in Ukraine

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Oleg Tinkov

Oleg Tinkov, the billionaire founding father of a massive Russian virtual bank, has blasted Russia’s “insane battle” in Ukraine and urged the West to help President Vladimir Putin find an off-ramp to “stop this massacre.” Russia’s brutal assault on its neighbor began almost months ago. Thousands of Ukrainian civilians had been killed and wounded, and … Read more

Lebanon’s ‘zombie banks’ downsize to weather crisis

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lebanon

BEIRUT: Once the economy’s crown jewel, Lebanon’s banks are shutting branches and laying off employees in droves, resizing to the bleak reality of a crisis they are widely blamed for. Before the onset in 2019 of a financial collapse deemed one of the world’s worst since the 1850s by the World Bank, the small Mediterranean … Read more

Record cargo shipped through Egypt’s Suez Canal last year

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Suez Canal

CAIRO: Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority said the key waterway netted record revenues last year, despite the coronavirus pandemic and a six-day blockage by giant cargo ship the Ever Given. Connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, the canal accounts for roughly 10 per cent of global maritime trade and is a source of much-needed foreign … Read more

Slow progress as Lebanon awaits IMF economic deal

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IMF

BEIRUT: Lebanon is mired in an economic crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the worst in modern times, but officials are yet to strike an international bailout deal. The financial meltdown began in 2019, and Lebanon defaulted on its debt last year. Politicians have failed to enact significant reforms to rescue the Mediterranean … Read more

Turkey refutes EU threat for sanctions, calls it ‘Hypocritical’

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Turkey refutes EU threat for sanctions, calls it 'Hypocritical'

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay has criticized the European Union’s threat to impose sanctions on Ankara, calling it “hypocritical”. According to foreign news agencies, Fuat Oktay’s statement came after EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell’s statement yesterday that the bloc is preparing to impose sanctions, including tough economic measures on Turkey. Fuat Oktay called that … Read more

Eastern Mediterranean crisis: EU threatens sanctions on Turkey

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Eastern Mediterranean crisis: EU threatens sanctions on Turkey

The European Union (EU) has threatened to impose new sanctions on Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean, including tough economic measures to reduce tensions with Greece and Cyprus. According to foreign news agencies, Joseph Borrell, a senior EU diplomat, said the bloc wanted to provide a “serious opportunity for dialogue”, but would remain steadfast in its … Read more

Turkey will not make concessions on what rightfully belongs to it

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Turkey will not make concessions on what rightfully belongs to it

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking at a ceremony marking a major victory of the Turkish army nearly a thousand years ago, said that Turkey will take whatever belongs to it in the Mediterranean, as well as Aegean and the Black Sea. According to the details, Erdogan said in a ceremony held on Wednesday on … Read more

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