The Latest Breaking News from Mediterranean

Mediterranean countries are a growing wildfire hotspot, with scientists warning that climate change is driving increasingly hot and dry summers

The fire has spread across 11,000 hectares of land

‘London Mediterranean’ is a more encompassing and minded way to define food here beyond ‘modern European’

Firefighters battled blazes across Turkey on Monday as the country sweltered in a summer heatwave across much of the Mediterranean, with wildfires leading to at least 14 deaths in the country in the past week.

Wildfires have been engulfing Turkey for weeks and early on Sunday (July 27) the country’s fourth-largest city came under threat causing hundreds of people to flee their homes.

Turkey has faced widespread outbreaks of forest fires since late June

Deaths in Cyprus bring overall toll on the eastern Mediterranean island and neighbouring Turkey to 12

Organisations working on route used by people trying to reach Europe say they are punished for saving lives

Nestled in the southern Mediterranean, off the south-east coast of Tunisia, lies the island of Djerba. With a rich cultural and religious history, it has been a crossroad of many civilisations, including the Phoenicians, Romans, Byzantines and Arabs, and is home to many unique architectural sites. These include the Sedouikech…