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Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean transformed from a thriving sea to a giant salt basin. The catastrophic event, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, was triggered by the ...

Novorossiysk and all of Russia's Naval Task Group ... is still in the North Sea awaiting transit south to the Mediterranean. "This improved-Kilo class boat, believed to be Krasnodar (B-265 ...

there are less assets out at sea assisting migrants in distress ... who make up one in five of all people migrating through the Mediterranean," Regina De Dominicis, UNICEF's regional director ...