migrants

With migration across the Mediterranean surging, the European Union's largest border operation is bracing for a record year of arrivals by sea, especially as

In October 2014, Captain Joshua Bhatt and the crew on board the bulk carrier CS Caprice, a ship owned by the Bahamas-based Campbell Shipping Company Ltd, was

Turkish coastguards found more than 300 refugees, mostly Syrians, when they seized a cargo ship they had opened fired on for failing to obey an order to stop

At least 10 North African migrants died when their rubber boat overturned in the southern Mediterranean while almost a thousand more were rescued in a single

Intermanager and the European Community Shipowners' Association are saying that it is unrealistic for merchant ships to continue bear the burden of conducting

In response to a staggering number of boat migrants rescued and killed in the Mediterranean Sea in recent days, International Maritime Organization (IMO)

Italy's coast guard went to the rescue of at least 1,000 migrants in difficulty in the sea between Europe and North Africa on Sunday, the third operation of

At least 300 people are believed to have drowned in the an attempt to escape from Africa, according to a statement from the International Organization for

At least 29 migrants died of hypothermia aboard Italian coast guard vessels after being picked up from an inflatable boat adrift near Libya, the mayor of the

The Icelandic coast guard patrol vessel Tyr, with support from the Italian Coast Guard, is conducting an extensive rescue in the Mediterranean tonight after

Almost 1,000 migrants arrived in Italy on a cargo ship on Wednesday after apparently being abandoned by its crew in the Adriatic Sea, the Italian Red Cross

Italian officials boarded a cargo ship carrying hundreds of migrants on Tuesday after it left Greek waters and headed towards the coast of southern Italy, the

The International Maritime Organization and other UN agencies are calling for a concerted effort in response to the staggering loss of life, trauma and human

Australia’s Senate voted early today to support legislation backed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott that denies asylum seekers arriving by boat the right to

Greece has sent a frigate to rescue a container ship believed to carrying hundreds of undocumented migrants and in distress off its southern island of Crete,

Italy said on Friday it would close a sea rescue mission that has saved the lives of more than 100,000 migrants from Africa and the Middle East, a move one

A group of Cuban migrants drank their own urine and blood after the engine of their homemade boat failed, leaving them adrift in the Caribbean for three weeks

Nordic American Tankers Limited says that one of its vessels was involved in the rescue of 150 migrants in distress after their wooden boat began experiencing

Investigators from the International Organization for Migration have launched an investigation into what appears to be the deliberate drowning of hundreds of

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, Sept 15 (Reuters) – More than 700 people fleeing Africa and the Middle East may have drowned in shipwrecks in the