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Mediterranean Sea
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Dozens die in shipwrecks off Tunisia as 2025 is already deadly for migrants in Mediterranean
• Jan. 2, 2025, 6:03 AM ET (CNN)
NATO Ally Responds to Russian Invasion Plan Rumors
• Dec. 31, 2024, 12:15 AM ET (Newsweek)
Russian ship that sank in the Mediterranean was attacked, owner says
• Dec. 26, 2024, 7:38 AM ET (AP)
Russian cargo ship sinks in the Mediterranean after engine room blast, leaving 2 crew missing
• Dec. 24, 2024, 11:11 AM ET (AP)
Pope Francis makes 1st papal visit to France's Corsica awash in expressions of popular piety
• Dec. 15, 2024, 2:48 PM ET (AP)
Mediterranean Sea, an intercontinental sea that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean on the west to Asia on the east and separates Europe from Africa. It has often been called the incubator of Western civilization. This ancient “sea between the lands” occupies a deep, elongated, and almost landlocked irregular depression lying between latitudes 30° and 46° N and longitudes 5°50′ W and 36° E. Its west-east extent—from the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco to the shores of the Gulf of Iskenderun on the southwestern coast of Turkey—is approximately 2,500 miles (4,000 km), and its average north-south extent, between Croatia’s ...(100 of 4421 words)