21.   De Klerk, who is on his first visit to Egypt, met earlier Monday with President Hosni Mubarak in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria.

22.   Diplomats reached by telephone in the capital Tripoli reported a crackdown was under way in Benghazi, a Mediterranean port east of Tripoli where the clashes erupted.

23.   Diplomats reached by telephone Sunday in the capital Tripoli reported a crackdown was under way in Benghazi, a Mediterranean port east of Tripoli where the clashes erupted.

24.   Fellow countryman Andrei Kivilev of Cofidis placed third in the stage, which took the riders from the town of Pertuis to the Mediterranean port city of Toulon.

25.   Foreign Minister Tansu Ciller announced Thursday that Iraqi oil would reach this Mediterranean port city in one month.

26.   Firefighters worked Tuesday evening to extinguish a fire that broke out aboard an Italian cargo ship as it headed for this Mediterranean port, authorities said.

27.   French tennis star Henri Leconte married bullfighter Marie Sara in this small Mediterranean port Friday before hundreds of onlookers and a team of ceremonial guards on horseback.

28.   French police in this Mediterranean port arrested five suspected Basque militants Thursday, including a commando chief of the Spanish-based separatist group ETA, informed sources said.

29.   From the Mediterranean port city of Marseille to Lille in the north, France cheered for itself unabashedly.

30.   Four French and three Dutch have been arrested on drug-trafficking charges in this Mediterranean port city, police said Wednesday.