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Yusra Mardini, Olympian Who Escaped War-Torn Syria By Swimming Aegean Sea
Born into the heart of Syria's Damascus, Yusra Mardini's early years were filled with the echoes of her father's tales of swimming glory. But fate dealt her a cruel hand as civil war ravaged her homeland, tearing apart the fabric of her existence.
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Greece Asked To Launch Probe After Video Shows Migrants Abandoned At Sea
In the video, refugees are shown being driven in a white van to a remote spot on the Aegean island before being forced into a high-speed inflatable boat.
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17 Migrants Dead After Ship Capsizes Off Greece Coast
At least 16 women migrants and one boy died when their vessel sank off the Greek island of Lesbos early on Thursday, in the second maritime disaster involving refugees in the Aegean Sea in under a day.
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50 Missing As Migrant Boat Sinks Off Greece: Report
Up to 50 people are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the Greek island of Karpathos in the Aegean Sea, a coastguard official told AFP Wednesday.
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Greek Rescuers Save More Than 100 Migrants In The Aegean
More than 100 migrants were rescued early Sunday off the island of Mykonos in the Aegean Sea and four are missing, the Greek coastguard said.
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"Repeated Provocation": Turkey-Greece Spar Over Airspace
Turkey on Friday accused Greek warplanes of violating its airspace over the Aegean Sea, which Turkish security sources said happened 30 times in 72 hours.
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Greece's First Underwater Museum Opens Ancient World To Dive Tourists
Emerging from the crystal-clear turquoise waters of the Aegean Sea, Hans-Juergen Fercher has just returned from his fourth dive to where mounds of 2,500-year-old wine pots mark the site of an ancient shipwreck -- and Greece's first underwater museum.
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Aegean Quake Count Rises To 115 As Search Continues In Turkey's Izmir
Search and rescue efforts were concentrated on two buildings in Turkey's western city of Izmir as the death count from Friday's earthquake in the Aegean Sea crept up to 115, disaster authorities said early on Wednesday.
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Baby, Toddler Among 7 Dead In Greek Migrant Boat Capsize
A baby and a toddler were among seven people who died Friday when a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard said, as rescuers searched for another four people missing.
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In Greece's Aegean Sea, Divers Find "Gulf Of Plastic Corals"
Thousands of plastic bags were pulled from the sea off Greece's Andros island this month by a team of divers and environmentalists who described what they found as a "gulf full of plastic corals."
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One Dead As 6.3-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Greek Islands
A woman died and 10 people were hurt on Monday when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios and the Aegean coast of western Turkey, officials said.
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NATO Says No Aegean Mission End Date
There is no fixed date for the NATO migrant mission in the Aegean Sea to end, an Alliance official said Friday, after Turkey called for the mission's completion "by the end of the year" because it had "reached its goal".
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59 Rescued From Migrant Dinghy Off Greek Island
Greece's coast guard says it has rescued 59 migrants in an inflatable dinghy in rough weather in the Aegean Sea.
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Turkey Scrambles Fighter Jets After Reported Sighting Of Missing Vessels
Turkish F-16 fighter jets scrambled on Wednesday to check reports that missing Turkish coastguard vessels had appeared in Greek waters in the Aegean Sea, Turkish military sources said.
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Turkey Sinks An Airbus Jumbo Jet In Aegean Sea To Attract Fish - And Tourists
It was designed to carry hundreds of travelers 30,000 feet up in the air. Now an Airbus jumbo jet lies inert some 75 feet under the surface of the Aegean Sea - not twisted into wreckage, but slowly and deliberately sunk by Turkish officials in the hopes of luring fish and tourists in droves.
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Yusra Mardini, Olympian Who Escaped War-Torn Syria By Swimming Aegean Sea
Born into the heart of Syria's Damascus, Yusra Mardini's early years were filled with the echoes of her father's tales of swimming glory. But fate dealt her a cruel hand as civil war ravaged her homeland, tearing apart the fabric of her existence.
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Greece Asked To Launch Probe After Video Shows Migrants Abandoned At Sea
In the video, refugees are shown being driven in a white van to a remote spot on the Aegean island before being forced into a high-speed inflatable boat.
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17 Migrants Dead After Ship Capsizes Off Greece Coast
At least 16 women migrants and one boy died when their vessel sank off the Greek island of Lesbos early on Thursday, in the second maritime disaster involving refugees in the Aegean Sea in under a day.
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50 Missing As Migrant Boat Sinks Off Greece: Report
Up to 50 people are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the Greek island of Karpathos in the Aegean Sea, a coastguard official told AFP Wednesday.
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Greek Rescuers Save More Than 100 Migrants In The Aegean
More than 100 migrants were rescued early Sunday off the island of Mykonos in the Aegean Sea and four are missing, the Greek coastguard said.
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"Repeated Provocation": Turkey-Greece Spar Over Airspace
Turkey on Friday accused Greek warplanes of violating its airspace over the Aegean Sea, which Turkish security sources said happened 30 times in 72 hours.
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Greece's First Underwater Museum Opens Ancient World To Dive Tourists
Emerging from the crystal-clear turquoise waters of the Aegean Sea, Hans-Juergen Fercher has just returned from his fourth dive to where mounds of 2,500-year-old wine pots mark the site of an ancient shipwreck -- and Greece's first underwater museum.
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Aegean Quake Count Rises To 115 As Search Continues In Turkey's Izmir
Search and rescue efforts were concentrated on two buildings in Turkey's western city of Izmir as the death count from Friday's earthquake in the Aegean Sea crept up to 115, disaster authorities said early on Wednesday.
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Baby, Toddler Among 7 Dead In Greek Migrant Boat Capsize
A baby and a toddler were among seven people who died Friday when a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard said, as rescuers searched for another four people missing.
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In Greece's Aegean Sea, Divers Find "Gulf Of Plastic Corals"
Thousands of plastic bags were pulled from the sea off Greece's Andros island this month by a team of divers and environmentalists who described what they found as a "gulf full of plastic corals."
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One Dead As 6.3-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Greek Islands
A woman died and 10 people were hurt on Monday when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios and the Aegean coast of western Turkey, officials said.
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NATO Says No Aegean Mission End Date
There is no fixed date for the NATO migrant mission in the Aegean Sea to end, an Alliance official said Friday, after Turkey called for the mission's completion "by the end of the year" because it had "reached its goal".
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59 Rescued From Migrant Dinghy Off Greek Island
Greece's coast guard says it has rescued 59 migrants in an inflatable dinghy in rough weather in the Aegean Sea.
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Turkey Scrambles Fighter Jets After Reported Sighting Of Missing Vessels
Turkish F-16 fighter jets scrambled on Wednesday to check reports that missing Turkish coastguard vessels had appeared in Greek waters in the Aegean Sea, Turkish military sources said.
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Turkey Sinks An Airbus Jumbo Jet In Aegean Sea To Attract Fish - And Tourists
It was designed to carry hundreds of travelers 30,000 feet up in the air. Now an Airbus jumbo jet lies inert some 75 feet under the surface of the Aegean Sea - not twisted into wreckage, but slowly and deliberately sunk by Turkish officials in the hopes of luring fish and tourists in droves.
