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15 migrants died in boat off Libya after 12 days without food or water, Egyptian survivor says
Fifteen migrants have died in a boat off the Libyan coast after spending 12 days at sea without food or water, an Egyptian survivor said on Tuesday. Only 10 migrants from the capsized boat survived, all of whom were suffering from severe dehydration, Othman Belbeisi, ...
Malta takes migrants rescued by Spanish fishermen after 10-day ordeal: aid group
Eleven migrants stranded in the Mediterranean for 10 days have been taken in by Malta after an appeal by the captain for help, a Spanish aid group said Sunday. Proactiva Open Arms, which helped the Nuestra Madre Loreto Spanish fishing vessel rescue the migrants, said ...
Norway frigate collision with tanker due mainly to human factors: inquiry
A collision earlier this month between a Norwegian frigate and a Maltese oil tanker was mainly due to human factors, investigators said Thursday, ruling out a technical error at this stage. Returning from NATO's Trident Juncture exercises, the KNM Helge Ingstad frigate sank after crashing ...
18 U.K.-bound migrants rescued during English Channel crossings
French and British maritime authorities have rescued 18 migrants in two small boats from the English Channel as they tried to get to Britain, the latest of several recent cases. The French Maritime Prefecture said that its vessels intercepted nine migrants before dawn Tuesday and ...
Toll expected to rise as overcrowded, unlicensed Ugandan boat sinks in Lake Victoria, killing 31
Ugandan divers retrieved 31 bodies and expected to find more in a capsized vessel in Lake Victoria, making it one of the country's worst maritime disasters and prompting the president to call for more stringent safety regulations. The vessel was believed to be overcrowded with ...
Libyan coast guard forces over 90 stranded migrants off rescue ship in Misrata port
Libyan authorities on Tuesday forcibly disembarked more than 90 migrants who had refused to leave a cargo ship that rescued them before docking in a port west of Tripoli, a coast guard commander said. The Panama-flagged ship rescued them and other migrants off the Libyan ...
Finding lost Argentine submarine 'first step' to learning disaster's cause
The discovery of the wreckage of an Argentine submarine lost a year ago has revived a stalled probe into the cause of the undersea disaster that took the lives of 44 crew members. Families of the victims have called for the ARA San Juan to ...
The bodies of 11 migrants were recovered and another 32 people were rescued in the sea north of Morocco, authorities in the North African country said on Tuesday. A boat carrying migrants ran into trouble on Monday off the coast of Nador, in the northeast ...
After standoff, 58 Aquarius migrants, and dog, finally disembark in Malta
The Maltese authorities on Sunday finally allowed 58 migrants from the Aquarius ashore after days waiting in rough seas on board the rescue ship that can no longer go to port after its flag was pulled. The group, which includes 35 women and children, was ...
Panama revokes registration of last migrant rescue ship in central Mediterranean
The Panama Maritime Authority has revoked the registration of search and rescue ship Aquarius 2 in a move that means there will be no charity rescue ships off the Libyan coast in the near future unless the vessel can find a new flag to ...
At least 79 people died when a ferry capsized in Lake Victoria, Tanzanian state media said Friday, citing a regional governor, as the search for survivors continued. "At the moment the death toll is 79," said Mwanza Gov. John Mongella, quoted on state television. The number ...
Migrant rescue ship Aquarius was seeking a safe haven for 11 migrants it saved off Libya Thursday, after refusing to return them to the North African country, aid groups MSF and SOS Mediterranee said. The vessel moved in to save 10 men and an unaccompanied ...
