ATHENS: Four migrants drowned Monday when their small boat overturned off the Greek island of Lesbos, the Greek coast guard said, with 10 now killed in accidents on the Greek side of the Aegean sea in October.
A coast guard spokesperson told AFP seven people were rescued from the latest boat to hit trouble in the Aegean around Lesbos, where there have been strong winds in recent days.
Lesbos and neighboring islands such as Chios, Kos, Leros and Samos are popular targets for would-be migrants seeking to reach Europe from nearby Turkiye.
Last week, the bodies of two women were found on the Chios coast after a boat carrying at least 29 people capsized. On October 7, four people were found dead off Lesbos.
On Friday, 17 people drowned off the Turkish resort of Bodrum, which is just five kilometers (three miles) from Kos.
The International Organization of Migration says that about 1,400 people have died trying to reach Europe on Mediterranean routes already this year.
Four dead in migrant boat capsize off Greece
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Four dead in migrant boat capsize off Greece
Italy says it can reactivate coal-powered plants if Gulf crisis worsens
- Fratin said Italy has “coal-powered stations that I wouldn’t like to re-activate but they are there in reserve to safeguard our country“
- Italy has a diversified portfolio of gas suppliers, which include Norway, Algeria and Azerbaijan
ROME: Italy’s energy minister said on Wednesday that the country can reactivate some coal-fired power stations if conflict in the Middle East should lead to an energy crisis.
Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said in a television interview that Italy has “coal-powered stations that I wouldn’t like to re-activate but they are there in reserve to safeguard our country.”
Israeli and US forces struck targets across Iran on Tuesday, prompting Iranian strikes against energy infrastructure in other Gulf states considered US allies, in a region that accounts for just under a third of global oil production.
Iran has also targeted tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas flows. Traffic remained effectively closed for a fourth day after Iran attacked five ships.
Italy has a diversified portfolio of gas suppliers, which include Norway, Algeria and Azerbaijan among others.
In addition the country’s quantities of gas storage are at relatively high levels.
“On the (energy) security front, our country is ... quite safe quantitatively,” Pichetto Fratin said.
“We have the highest storage levels in Europe, we have diversified sources, and therefore we can say there is not an extremely severe situation regarding the quantities of resources, and I am speaking mainly about gas,” he added.
