ROME (AP) — 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. migr… Read More
Authorities in Tunisia are weighing the construction of new cemeteries amid a recent swell of migrants washing ashore after drowning in the Mediterranean Sea.
The United Nations has noted… Read More
It was 12:50 a.m. when Maltese authorities were first told that a rickety blue-and-white fishing vessel carrying about 400 migrants was in distress off the island nation’s coast.&nbs… Read More
Nine survivors of a migrant boat sinking off the coast of Greece, which may have carried as many as 750 passengers, have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling. The trawler capsized early o… Read More
Authorities vowed the ten suspected human traffickers they arrested could be ‘severely punished’.
Pakistan authorities have arrested 10 alleged human traffickers after it e… Read More
Hundreds of people remain missing and are feared dead following last Wednesday’s shipwreck in the Mediterranean sea. Rescue organizations began receiving distressed calls from people… Read More
Among the passengers aboard the trawler that sank off Greece on June 14 were two cousins from a village in Egypt. Only one survived.
More information is coming out about the victims of th… Read More
At least 35 individuals are believed to have tragically drowned in a devastating incident involving an inflatable boat carrying migrants and refugees en route to the Canary Islands. The boat… Read More
Scores of Pakistanis try to reach Italy via Libya. Currently, they make up the third most common nationality of irregular migrants coming to Italy from Libya. Research shows that the effects… Read More
By now, the news of the missing submersible that disappeared in the North Atlantic taking five wealthy tourists with it who had gone on an expedition to see the wreckage of Titanic the drown… Read More
Authorities have already launched investigations into the deadly demise of OceanGate’s Titan submersible, probes launched after the five people aboard were declared lost to a vio… Read More
Court of Appeal judges today found the Rwanda policy to be unlawful and backed a legal challenge by campaigners and asylum seekers. Three judges agreed by a majority of two to one tha… Read More
Rescuers who saved thousands of migrants in the Mediterranean are facing 20-year prison sentences for "aiding and abetting illegal immigration." Kathrin Schmidt, head of operations aboard a… Read More
On Saturday, Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez began Madrid’s six-month presidency of the European Union with a bellicose visit to Kiev to underline the bloc&r… Read More
At least 300 people who were travelling on three migrant boats from Senegal to Spain’s Canary Islands have disappeared, migrant aid group Walking Borders said on Sunday.
Migrants… Read More
Spain’s coastguard said Monday it rescued 86 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa aboard a boat near the Canary Islands that had been spotted earlier in the day by a rescue plane. The Salv… Read More
A fishing boat crowded with migrants traveling from Libya to Italy sank last Month . While hundreds are still missing and feared dead, it has garnered far less attention and resources… Read More
By: Sanoop Suresh, Research Analyst, GSDN
Riots in France: source InternetOnce more, France embarks on a movement, but this time the demand is not the reversal of pension reforms or the c… Read More
An Italian fishing boat was reportedly attacked and “heavily damaged” by the Libyan coast guard in international waters on the Mediterranean. Nobody was seriously injured.
Earli… Read More
ROME — Italy’s Coast Guard rescued 57 migrants from two boats that capsized during the night in rough seas south of a tiny Italian island and recovered two bodies, authorities… Read More
ROME (AP) — Italy’s Coast Guard rescued 57 migrants from two boats that capsized during the night in rough seas south of a tiny Italian island and recovered two bodies, authori… Read More
Lampedusa: Dozens rescued by Italy from migrant
ROME: Italy’s Coast Guard rescued 57 migrants from two boats that capsized throughout the evening in tough seas south of a tiny Italian… Read More
The first asylum seekers have been pictured boarding the Bibby Stockholm barge following weeks of delays – as a charity revealed its lawyers had managed to stop 20 people from b… Read More
Asylum seekers have had their moves onto the Bibby Stockholm blocked at the last-minute after lawyers for a refugee charity claimed some of them had a ‘severe fear of water’.Th… Read More
A group of individuals aboard a vessel that departed from Tunisia were successfully rescued in the vicinity of Lampedusa, Italy, during the current month.Hundreds have perished on the perilo… Read More
Migrant dies and several are rushed to hospital after Channel boat carrying asylum seekers capsizes- sparking late night rescue missionBy Elizabeth Haigh Published: 05:02 E… Read More
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Migrants who set out in dozens of flimsy boats launched by smugglers on Tunisian shores have disembarked on three tiny Italian islands in a span of two days, official… Read More
ROME — Migrants who set out in dozens of flimsy boats launched by smugglers on Tunisian shores have disembarked on three tiny Italian islands in a span of two days, officials said. S… Read More
Elemental is a new animated rom-com drama film by Disney Pixar that does set out with the same innocent touch one would expect of it but ends up saying much more. As is clear from the title… Read More
Title: Spanish NGO Alleges Failures by Authorities and Frontex in Preventing Migrant Deaths off West Africa
In a tragic incident off the coast of Cape Verde, at least 60 migrants are presum… Read More
Migrants attempting hazardous sea crossings to Europe – and in many cases, ultimately to Britain – have offering a sobering insight into their motives for risking their lives … Read More
Senegal has repatriated 40 survivors from Cape Verde who were attempting to reach Europe by crossing the Atlantic. The crossing resulted in the deaths of approximately 60 migrants. The survi… Read More
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BARCELONA, Spain — (AP) — Thousands of migrants and refugees have landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa this week after crossing the Mediterranean Sea on small unseaworthy… Read More
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Thousands of migrants and refugees have landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa this week after crossing the Mediterranean Sea on small unseaworth… Read More
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