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An inflatable speedboat with 26 migrants crashed during a chase by the Hellenic Coast Guard off Rhodes Friday, killing eight and seriously injuring three in the second fatal incident involving migrants within a week.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sent out a global climate "SOS" at a Pacific islands summit on Tuesday, unveiling research that shows the region's seas rising much more swiftly than global averages.

"I am in Tonga to issue a global SOS — Save Our Seas — on rising sea levels. A worldwide catastrophe is putting this Pacific paradise in peril" he said.

How did the shipwreck happen that cost the lives of 98 people – Overcrowding, rain, rescue efforts, and the headlines of that time

Scientists have discovered what is believed to be the world's northernmost landmass - a yet-to-be-named island north of Greenland that could soon be swallowed up by seawaters.

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Researchers came upon the landmass on an expedition in July, and initially thought they had reached Oodaaq, up until now the northernmost island on the planet.

A species of coral colony that face possible danger of extinction in a reef off Sivriada, one of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara, has been transferred via a special method to another of the Princes' Islands—known by the names of Tavşan Island or Balıkçı Island or Neandros Island in Greek.

The Greek islands remained at the top of award-winning Conde Nast’s ‘Favorite Islands’ category, rising from second position in 2014 and 2013. Better than Bali, the Balearic Islands, the Maldives and so forth…
Here’s the full list:
1. Greek Islands
2. Balearic Islands
3. Maldives
4. Hawaiian Islands
5. Bali
6. Mauritius
7. Sicily

The number of unregistered Syrian migrants that have arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos has exceeded the resident population, some 90,000, this year, said Mayor Spyros Galinos, who has suggested official boat or plane routes to save lives.  

Turkey's coastguard rescued 30 Syrians from a boat heading towards Greece after their vessel began to take on water in the Aegean Sea, state media said April 21.

The rescue operation came amid a surge in the numbers of migrants seeking to reach Europe, following the Mediterranean's worst migrant disaster in which as many as 800 people drowned off Libya.

Mauritius is a tiny island in the Indian Ocean, a few nautical miles east of Madagascar. It is a well-known tropical paradise which attracts many an adventurous holiday-maker.