A boat carrying up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea killing hundreds of people, the Italian coastguard says.…
At least two hundreds migrants are dead after the motorboats they were travelling on sank in the Mediterranean Sea, the…
1,123 migrants from North Africa have been rescued by Italian navy from inflatable boats in the space of 24 hours.…
Italian and Greek coast guards saved more than 300 migrants from rough waters in two separate incidents. The Italian navy…
A state of emergency has been declared in Sicily because of the large numbers of African migrants it has to…
A second migrant boat with more than 200 people on board has capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa and…
Italy has decided to hold a state funeral for the hundreds of migrants who died after their boat capsized close…
Dozens more bodies have been recovered from the boat carrying African migrants that capsized close to the Sicilian island of…
Italian coast guard has denied that it was slow to respond to the sinking of a boat carrying African migrants…
At least 130 migrants have died and many more are missing after a boat carrying them to Europe sank off…
At least 50 people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank off near Lampedusa, southern Italy, reports say. Rescue…
Pope Francis has visited Italy's tiny island of Lampedusa and condemned the "global indifference" to migrants’ plight during a Mass.…