At least 78 bodies have been recovered after a fishing boat crammed with migrants trying to make it from Libya to Italy capsized and sank a day earlier in deep waters off the Greek coast.

The sinking of the Adriana was the largest loss of life in the Mediterranean in a single event in recent decades. It added ...

where migrants often endure brutal detention conditions for months before they can board rubber dinghies or aging wooden fishing boats, toward Italy. Most of the migrants departing from Libya are ...

Opposition parties pointed to Sunday’s tragedy as proof of the flaws in Italy’s migration policy ... rubber dinghies or aging wooden fishing boats for Italian shores.

A source at Italy's foreign ministry told Reuters the Libyans had attacked on the grounds that the boat was fishing in their waters. An Italian navy unit immediately intervened along with a ...

Nearly 1,200 undocumented migrants have arrived in Italy over the past 24 hours ... five dead bodies recovered from an overcrowded fishing boat off the coast of Calabria. Another 522 people ...

Last week's sinking of a fishing boat crowded with migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy sparked arrests, violent protests and questions about authorities’ failure to act or find a long ...