An activist network that supports rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea is accusing Italy of failing to offer timely assistance to a smugglers’ boat in distress, resulting in a deadly shipwreck that left at least 30 migrants missing and presumed dead in
At least eight people died when two suspected migrant boats capsized in shallow but treacherous surf amid heavy fog off the coast of California, authorities said on Sunday, marking one of the deadliest maritime human smuggling operations off of US shores. A
The Turkish Coast Guard recovered the bodies of five migrants whose dinghy packed with 31 passengers was shipwrecked Saturday morning off the coast of Turkey, officials said. Turkish authorities rescued 11 others from a partially submerged boat, while the Greece Coast Guard
The Italian coast guard responded Friday to three boats carrying more than 1,300 migrants that were “in danger” in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy’s southern coast, officials said. Coast guard vessels were dispatched to rescue about 500 people on a smuggler’s boat
At least 14 Africans died and 54 were rescued when a boat in which they were trying to reach Europe sank off the coast of Tunisia, the Tunisian National Guard said Thursday. The 14 bodies were recovered overnight in the Mediterranean Sea
Iranian warships have been speeted off the coast of Brazil in move that has infuriated US politicians. The south American nation gave Iran permission to dock two sanctioned ships in Rio de Janeiro, sparking a backlash from the US and Israel. Lior
The West African nations of Guinea and Ivory Coast are repatriating citizens who want to leave Tunisia after the country’s increasingly authoritarian leader called for a crackdown on migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Morissanda Kouyate, Guinea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Guineans Abroad,
A pub landlady bought a cosy bungalow three years ago with a dream to grow old on the idyllic property overlooking the North Sea. However, just a few years later Mandy Jephcote, 58, fears her £75,000 home may teeter off the cliff
Migrants, including children, were thrown into the sea from an overcrowded boat by people smugglers, survivors of a deadly shipwreck have said. At least 65 people, including 14 youngsters, died when their the wooden vessel slammed into shoals near the shore of
Search and rescue efforts continued Sunday after a makeshift wooden boat carrying more than a hundred migrants crashed into the rocky reefs off the coast of southern Italy before dawn. The death toll climbed to at least 60 people, the Italian outlet