Eighteen migrants drowned when their boat overturned 26 miles (40 km) south of the Greek island of Chrysi, after a Turkish cargo ship spotted the vessel and alerted Greek authorities.
Two people were rescued from the sea and were being taken to Crete for medical care and further checks.
The boat was first detected by a Turkish cargo ship, whose crew contacted Greek authorities after seeing the vessel in distress. The coast guard launched an immediate operation, but most of the passengers were already unresponsive when rescuers reached the scene.
Greece was on the front line of the 2015-16 migration crisis, when more than a million people from the Middle East and Africa crossed into Europe. Although flows eased in the years that followed, the past year has seen a sharp rise in boats departing mainly from Libya and heading toward Crete, Gavdos and Chrysi - the three Aegean islands nearest to the African coast.
Despite intensified patrols and monitoring, fatal accidents remain common along these routes, where overloaded and unseaworthy vessels continue to put lives at risk. Authorities say search operations in the area will continue.
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Trump says the United States "don’t need people that join wars after we’ve already won," targeting his criticism at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Israel continues to fire missles at strategic sites in Iran and Gulf regions report more strikes from Iran.
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Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as supreme leader on Monday (9 March), signaling that hardliners remain firmly in charge, as the week-old U.S.-Israeli war with Iran pushed oil above $100 a barrel.
Entry and exit across the state border between Azerbaijan and Iran for all types of cargo vehicles, including those in transit, will resume on 9 March, according to a statement by the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan.
U.S. President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke by phone on Sunday as tensions between Washington and Westminster deepened over the conflict involving Iran. The call came less than a day after Trump criticised Britain’s response to U.S. strikes on Iranian targets.
Norwegian police are searching for a suspect after an explosion at the U.S. embassy in Oslo on 8 March caused minor damage but no injuries, in what authorities say may have been a deliberate attack linked to the Middle East crisis.
An explosion damaged a synagogue in the Belgian city of Liège early on Monday (9 March) in what authorities said was an antisemitic attack that caused damage but no injuries.
The Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers will meet on Monday to discuss a global rise in oil prices and a joint release of oil from emergency reserves coordinated by the International Energy Agency, the Financial Times reports.
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