A Libyan coast guard boat rammed into a dingy carrying some 50 migrants just off Libya’s coast on Friday, partially sinking the vessel. Many of those onboard were thrown into the Mediterranean Sea and had to swim to another Libyan ship nearby
The shipwreck last week off Greece that is feared to have killed hundreds of people may be the “worst ever tragedy” of its kind in the Mediterranean Sea, the European Union’s migration chief said Wednesday. The tragedy comes as migrant crossings from
Hundreds missing in migrant boat sinking; EU Commissioner says 'worst ever tragedy' in Mediterranean
The sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of Greece may have been the deadliest of modern times. An undetermined amount of people numbering in the hundreds remained missing and were likely killed when the migrant vessel sank earlier this week.
A fishing boat filled with people trying to reach Europe capsized and sank on Wednesday off the coast of Greece, authorities have said. In one of the worst disasters of its kind this year, at least 79 people were reported dead and many
Forecasters have warned that Britons are set to bake in 27C heat as a Mediterranean plume sweeps the country. Temperatures could be in the high 20s next week as the heatwave grips the southeast and parts of the midlands. This weekend many
A day after searching a stretch of the Mediterranean Sea, an Italian humanitarian group said Friday that its rescue vessel found no trace of a boat said to be in distress and carrying 500 migrants, including a newborn. The vessel “Life Support
Allied troops going ashore to liberate Sicily in November 1942. (Image: Getty) The wartime SAS may be remembered primarily for its daring desert raids in North Africa, not least thanks to the BBC’s recent hit drama Rogue Heroes. But some of the
At least 25 African migrants died and 15 are missing after a boat carrying them toward Europe sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Tunisia this week, Tunisian authorities said. The Tunisian coast guard on Thursday recovered the bodies of
The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats, the U.N. migration agency reported Wednesday, citing nations’ delays in initiating rescues as a contributing factor. The International
Intelligence reports indicate nearly 700,000 migrants are in Libya awaiting an opportunity to set out by sea toward Italy, a lawmaker from Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party said Sunday, but a U.N. migration official called the number not credible. Tommaso Foti, the