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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Rescuers step on board an overcrowded fishing boat, fearing the worst ... once they arrived in Italy. Samson, the Eritrean asked every person he met for news of his wife.

According to an official of the European Union’s border agency, Frontex, a fishing ... migrant boats in exchange for economic and other aid. But the number of migrants reaching Italy so far ...

The missing people, including a five-year-old child, had set sail on a fishing boat from Bizerte in northern Tunisia last week, the national guard official, Houssem Eddine Jebabli, told Reuters.

Ahmed Ebid is believed to be the first person convicted of organising boat crossings across the Mediterranean from the UK.