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Tunisia Coast Guard Retrieves 31 Bodies of Migrants from Sea

The Tunisian coast guard said on Monday it had recovered 31 bodies of African migrants who drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Italy. It added that among the bodies recovered off the coast of Sfax, Kerkennah and Mahdia were the bodies of two women and two children. The…

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Tunisian coast guard retrieves 31 bodies of migrants from sea

The Tunisian coast guard said on Monday it had recovered 31 bodies of African migrants who drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Italy.

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Tucked-away village you could mistake for Italy only a short trip from Liverpool

On our doorstep is a slice of the Mediterranean

Liverpool Echo

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Dr Michael Mosley details three common fruits to avoid for weight loss

As the founder of the 5:2 diet and Very Fast 800, a 'short-term rapid weight loss' programme, Dr Mosley advises people to consume just 800 calories per day while enjoying a moderately low-carb Mediterranean diet

Daily Mirror

Malta receives 60 rescued migrants in first arrivals in months

Sixty migrants who were rescued from two boats in the central Mediterranean landed in Malta on Monday in the biggest arrival of migrants on the island for months, eyewitnesses said.

Reuters

Tourists struck down by food poisoning at 5-star TUI resort in Turkey as one hospitalised

Families forked out up to £4,000 for breaks at the Rixos Sungate hotel in the Mediterranean - but more than 10 families were said to be suffering from food poisoning

Daily Mirror

Mediterranean garden ideas – 10 ways to get the holiday vibe to your outdoor space

Mediterranean gardens are the trend that is going nowhere in 2023

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UN rights chief seeks help for surge in central Med migrants

The U.N. human rights chief is calling for an expansion in regular migration channels and search-and-rescue operations after a “steep increase” in the number of migrants and asylum-seekers making risky attempts to cross the central Mediterranean to Europe

The Independent UK

Edinburgh holidaymakers issued Cyprus travel warning by Foreign Office

A new drug law has been introduced on the Mediterranean island that could result in unexpected prison time for holidaymakers who are unaware of the new rules.

Edinburgh Live

Cyprus travel warning issued by Foreign Office over strict new laws this summer

A new law in the Mediterranean island could result in prison time for unsuspecting holidaymakers.

Daily Record

‘Deadliest quarter’ for migrants in the Central Med since 2017

More than 400 people have died crossing the Central Mediterranean between January and March this year.

Al Jazeera

UN migration agency sounds alarm over sea deaths as EU arrivals rise

Three times as many people sought to reach the European Union across the Mediterranean in the first three months of 2023 compared to a year before, the bloc's border agency said, as the U.N. migration arm decried the deadliest first quarter since 2017.

Reuters

UN: Year Is off to a Deadly Start for Migrants Crossing Med

The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats, the UN migration agency reported Wednesday, citing nations' delays in initiating rescues as a contributing factor. The International Organization for Migration documented 441 migrant deaths along…

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UN: Year is off to a deadly start for migrants crossing Med

The migration agency of the United Nations says the first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats

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Over 400 migrants died crossing Mediterranean early in 2023 - UN agency

More than 400 migrants and refugees drowned in early 2023 while attempting to cross the central Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe, the most fatalities in the past six years over a three-month period, a United Nations agency said on Wednesday.

Liverpool Echo

Cyprus travel warning issued by UK Foreign Office after new law

A new law has been imposed on the Mediterranean island

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Egypt, Greece Discuss Boosting Cooperation within East Mediterranean Gas Forum

Egypt and Greece are in talks to boost cooperation within the East Mediterranean Gas Forum framework and the tripartite cooperation mechanism that brings the two countries together with Cyprus. The Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met in Athens with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias.

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Italy adopts state of emergency over migrants

Italy's cabinet on Tuesday announced a state of emergency on immigration following a "sharp rise" in flows across the Mediterranean, a statement said, in a move aimed at better management of migrant arrivals and repatriation facilities.

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The Week

Vori Greek Kitchen review: the start of a Greek cuisine renaissance?

Greek restaurants, much like Italian, have been influential in educating the British palate with the flavours of the Mediterranean. And yet it feels like Greek cuisine has forever been on the fringes of dining out culture here, and is still waiting for its moment to truly announce itself.

The Guardian - UK

Italian coastguard in rescue of two fishing boats carrying 1,200 people

Operation comes as attempted crossings of Mediterranean from north Africa surge over weekend

The Independent UK

2 dead, 20 missing as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia

German aid group ResQship says at least two migrants have died and about 20 others are missing after their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy

Reuters

Italy's coastguard works to rescue 1,200 migrants drifting at sea

The Italian coastguard is carrying out operations to rescue two boats carrying a total of 1,200 people, it said on Monday, after a surge in the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa over the weekend.

WEKU

2 people are dead, 20 missing, as a migrant boat sinks off the coast of Tunisia

The boat sank over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy. About 25 people were rescued. Thousands of migrants have reached Italy's tiny Lampedusa island in the past few days.

Reuters

Drifting migrant boat in Mediterranean supplied with fuel but no rescue, NGO says

A merchant ship has supplied fuel and water to a boat with around 400 migrants on board which is in distress between Greece and Malta but Maltese authorities have ordered it not to conduct a rescue, German NGO Sea-Watch International said on Monday.

The National (Scotland)

This Rugged isle gives a slice of the Hebrides in the Mediterranean

A RUGGED isle awash with Neolithic sites sounds positively Scottish. And the problems under the paradisical surface of the Maltese island of Gozo…

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