Tragedy struck as 61 migrants went missing in a boat sinking off Libya's coast, presumed dead. The vessel, carrying around 86 individuals, ...

French and UK rescue boats saved nearly 60 migrants and brought them to French or British shores, and search and rescue operations were ong...

Forty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after being shipwrecked last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said, citin...

All 34 migrants who endured two nights on the reef were rescued, said Federico Catania, a spokesperson for the Alpine assistance group whos...

At least 400 Pakistanis, 200 Egyptians and 150 Syrians, including around two dozen Syrian women and young children were on the packed boat ...

A large search and rescue operation was launched in the area. Authorities said 104 people have been rescued so far following the nighttime ...

62 migrants, including 12 children and an infant, have been confirmed dead after their boat broke apart while attempting to land near Croto...

More than 50 migrants have drowned or disappeared off the coast of Tunisia, while 33 others were rescued by workers from an oil platform, t...

Around 14,000 people were taken off often flimsy vessels over the whole week, the UN and the coastguard said, and hundreds may have drowned.

One million migrants reached Europe by land and sea in 2015 fleeing conflicts and persecution, the UN refugee agency said today.

"The Mediterranean is turning into a graveyard of migrants," Erdogan told the select top global business leaders at the B20 meeting Thursda...

"The (deaths) are the result of a continuing failure of governance accompanied by a monumental failure of compassion," he said in a stateme...

Five of the pirates who hijacked a Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a $3 million ransom, a relative said Saturday, the day aft...