The non-profit SOS Mediterranee says the MV Ocean Viking was targeted while carrying 87 rescued migrants to safety.View on ...

An overcrowded rubber dinghy that set sail from Libya toward Italy began taking on water in rough seas, according to a German ...

A German nonprofit organization says three young Sudanese sisters have died after an overcrowded rubber dinghy took on water ...

A humanitarian group says Libya’s coast guard fired upon its vessel as it searched for a migrant boat in distress in the ...

The journey of thousands of Egyptians toward Europe, by desert, by dinghy, or by the hands of smugglers, remains treacherous ...

There was "sheer horror" when survivors realised that the girls aged nine, 11 and 17 had died, a rescuer says.

Before this attack, the Ocean Viking had rescued 87 people, including from war-torn Sudan, and was en route to Italy.

Major energy exporter Libya, long split between rival eastern and western factions, is one of the main jumping off points for migrants crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa. Rival regional ...

Authorities have recovered 20 bodies, and are searching for another 12 to 17 survivors, according to the UN refugee agency.

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