Libya

More than 200 migrants died after their boats sank as they were attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Italy.

The two boats involved in the latest tragedy had departed from Libya on Saturday, carrying more than 100 passengers each, the BBC reports.

More than 300 migrants were feared drowned on Feb. 11 after their overcrowded dinghies sank in the Mediterranean, the latest boat disaster on the perilous crossing from Africa to Europe.
      
The victims were among migrants mainly from sub-Saharan Africa who had left the coast of Libya at the weekend in four small boats, the UN refugee agency said.
      

The USA is pointed out as the leader in world oil markets over the next decade in the annual Medium-Term Oil Market report published by the International Energy Agency on Tuesday.

In the light of economic sanctions against Russia on world markets, the country is prognosed to resort to contracting many of its capacities.

In an interview to German magazine Spiegel on Monday, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias talked about a number of issues, including the situation in Ukraine, the sanctions against Russia and Germany's role in Europe.

Read below excerpts of the interview on several issues.

On the European stance towards Russia

President Vladimir Putin arrived on Feb. 9 in Egypt as Russia seeks to expand its reach in the Arab world's most populous country at a time when Cairo-Washington ties remain frayed.
      
Putin's first visit to Egypt in a decade comes after a 2011 popular uprising that ousted ex-strongman Hosni Mubarak, whom he leader met on his previous trip in 2005.
      

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will meet with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin on Tuesday, a day before an absolutely crucial Eurogroup extraordinary meeting,.

Following Tuesday's meeting, Kotzias travels to Paris and Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Egypt on Monday as Moscow looks to expand its reach in the Arab world's most populous country at a time when Cairo-Washington ties remain frayed.
 

A deputy leader of the main opposition party has questioned the testimony of a suspect in the case over the wiretapping of then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, who said Erdo?an sent him to Libya to meet Moammar Gadhafi several times in private. 

A deputy leader of the main opposition party has questioned the testimony of a suspect in the case over the wiretapping of then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, who said Erdo?an sent him to Libya to meet Moammar Gadhafi several times in private. 

According to the draft agreement for the sale of MDI, which BIRN has seen, a consortium of two companies, CPR-IMPEX from Belgrade and ATL Atlantic Technologies Ltd from Tel Aviv, are required to invest an additional 400,000 euro by the end of 2015.

The Serbo-Israeli joint offer was the sole bid for the tender, which was completed in last December.