Mediterranean Sea

MADRID - Spain said it had plucked more than 200 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday as the country's interior minister headed to Mauritania to try to boost cooperation in the fight against illegal immigration.

Spanish rescue services said July 24 they had plucked nearly 500 migrants from the Mediterranean in a single day who were trying to reach the country's coast.

Hair trends of the ancient times will be showcased in a museum in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, where many civilizations have lived for centuries since antiquity. 

US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wess Mitchell told Congress's Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that Washington is "constructing a long-term strategy to bolster the US presence in the Eastern Mediterranean."

The Mediterranean could become a "sea of plastic," the WWF warned on June 8 in a report calling for measures to clean up one of the world's worst affected bodies of water.

The Mediterranean Sea is quickly turning into a dangerous "plastic trap" with record levels of pollution from micro- and macro-plastics threatening marine species and human health, according to a new report by conservation group WWF.

Washington is cultivating Greece as "an anchor of stability in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Balkans," said Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Wess Mitchell, in a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, in which he outlined the Trump administration's strategy in Europe.

Nine migrants, including six children, seeking to head to Europe in a speedboat drowned on June 3 when the vessel sank off Turkey's Mediterranean coast, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Spanish ships have saved 408 migrants who tried to cross the Mediterranean during the weekend, the France press and the Associated Press reported, citing the rescue service.

Today, 115 migrants were found in five small boats. There is search operation for three other boats. Yesterday 293 migrants were found traveling in 9 boats.

A Russian warship heading to the Mediterranean waters passed through the Strait of Dardanelles in Turkey's west on May 23, Doğan News Agency reported.