61.   The flood waters collapsed a four-story hotel near the Mediterranean port city of Mersin Sunday, but the hotel was closed and empty.

62.   The far-right National Front, seeking grassroots legitimacy, took the large Mediterranean port city of Toulon in municipal elections Sunday.

63.   The fire began when the ship was being loaded with fuel at the Mediterranean port, the state news agency EFE said.

64.   The incident occurred in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, which has not been an extremist center.

65.   The maneuvers will be carried out off the Mediterranean port city of Mersin.

66.   The mosque is located in the Puit des Zouaves neighborhood in the hills above the Mediterranean port capital.

67.   The meeting in the outskirts of this Mediterranean port city was held amid extra tight security.

68.   The mayor of the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, Jean-Claude Gaudin, who is also urban affairs minister, was placed under special protection.

69.   The protest blocked the central area of the ancient Mediterranean port, now part of modern Tel Aviv and home to several thousand Israeli Arab citizens.

70.   The Rofayda left the Cyprus port of Limassol Tuesday bound for east Mediterranean ports, said the spokesman on customary condition of anonymity.