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Greece’s newly appointed defense minister has welcomed a de-escalation of tensions in the eastern Mediterranean

The sinking of a boat off the coast of Greece transformed World Refugee Day, celebrated the June 20, into a day of mourning. There were an estimated 750 people on board, 70 were confirmed to have died and only 104 were rescued from the wreckage – leaving many unaccounted for.

Sarah Clegg’s Woman’s Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi is about ancient demonic figures, expressly the infamous child-killing monsters of the Near East and Mediterranean. Intimately tied to childbirth and infant and child mortality, such monsters were female in form.

A quarter of all plastic exposure risk occurs in the high seas, according to scientists

Officials in Punjab say they can’t to stop the exodus, as families tell of loved ones lost on the perilous route via Africa and the Mediterranean

I know what it’s like to wait for someone lost at sea.

When a boat packed with hundreds of migrants sinks in the Mediterranean and a submersible implodes with five men on board – should comparisons be drawn from the media coverage of these two tragedies?

July will bring another spell of hot weather as a subtropical airstream from the Mediterranean makes its way towards Britain, pushing temperatures up to 30C once again

TravelSupermarket figures show steepest rises in Crete at 25%, followed by Tenerife at 22% and Mallorca at 21%

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky are the key figures at a European Union summit underway in Brussels this Thursday, highlighting the importance of protecting the EU's eastern flank from Russian aggression and bolstering support for Tunisia to combat illegal migration across the Mediterranean.

TravelSupermarket has compiled figures showing which destinations have gone up the most in the last 12 months