At least 62 migrants traveling on a makeshift boat have drowned off the coast of Mauritania, in the worst loss of life this year along the increasingly traveled Atlantic migration route to Europe. Eighty-three survivors managed to swim to shore after their boat, which was ...
Italy places more migrants across Europe as Matteo Salvini focuses on economy
Italy has increased relocation of migrants around Europe, official figures showed on Wednesday, reducing frictions around the issue and enabling far-right leader Matteo Salvini to steer his focus more onto the economy. Interior Ministry data showed that 172 migrants who came onshore from the Mediterranean ...
Despite calls for their relocation before winter, hundreds of migrants have remained stuck in a makeshift tent camp in northwestern Bosnia as a spate of snowy and cold weather has hit the region. Their tents bending under wet snow, migrants at the Vucjak camp near ...
At least nine dead as downpours lash France, Italy and Greece
At least nine people have died after heavy rain slammed the Riviera coasts of France and Italy, trapping travelers in their cars, and caused flooding in parts of Greece. Some roads remained closed Monday on the French Riviera, and rivers were still rising in Italy ...
Saudi-bound ship with 14,600 sheep aboard capsizes off Romania port
Rescuers were struggling Sunday to save 14,600 sheep loaded on a cargo ship that capsized in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania, they said. The Queen Hind bound for Saudi Arabia overturned for yet unknown reasons shortly after leaving Romania's Midia port. The crew ...
Italian authorities have evacuated 11 migrants from the Open Arms ship but not granted port access to the vessel, leaving it stranded in rough seas with 62 African migrants still on board, a spokeswoman for the Spanish rescue mission said on Sunday. Among those evacuated ...
Bodies of seven migrants on capsized boat found off Italy; 20 still missing
Rescue authorities found the bodies of seven migrants, including five women, after their boat capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa, coast guard officials said Sunday. A patrol boat recovered the bodies of three of the women and customs workers found two more washed ashore ...
'Wall of water': Lawsuits detail deadly U.S. Navy collision with freighter off Japan
Survivors and descendants of those killed when a containership collided with a U.S. Navy destroyer off Japan's coast are suing the ship's Japanese charterer, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that details the survivors' scramble for safety as water rushed in. In dramatic detail, the ...
North Korea raps Japan's release of video showing fishing boat collision
North Korea has criticized Japan for releasing video footage showing the collision between a North Korean fishing boat and a Japanese patrol ship earlier this month. "The fishing vessel incident obviously is nothing but a deliberate barbarity as it is a vivid expression of the ...
Japan releases video of ship collision involving Fisheries Agency and North Korean trawler
The government released video footage Friday showing last week's collision between a Fisheries Agency patrol ship and a North Korean fishing vessel in an effort to demonstrate that Japan took appropriate action. The 13-minute video shows that the North Korean vessel sank after colliding with ...
Italy retrieves seven bodies from Oct. 7 migrant shipwreck off Lampedusa
Italy has recovered the bodies of a child and six other people from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, more than a week after a crowded migrant boat capsized off the coast of the island of Lampedusa. Men from the Italian coast guard, dressed in ...
Japan may release video of North Korean boat's collision with Fisheries Agency vessel
Suspecting illegal fishing, the patrol ship Okuni was badgering the ship with loudspeakers and water cannons before the accident in Japan’s EEZ.
