In another Italian coast guard operation, 20 migrants were saved when their boat ran into trouble after setting out from Sfax, Tunisia, and a woman's body was recovered, Italian state television said.

Italy’s government under Premier Giorgia Meloni, a far-right leader, has focused on trying to block migrant boats from departing, while discouraging humanitarian rescue vessels from working in ...

ROME — An Italian prosecutor investigating last week's capsizing that left 41 migrants feared dead in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday denounced Tunisia-based smugglers who launch boats so ...

A judge on the southern Italian city of Crotone on Monday indicted six Italian officials for allegedly failing to take action that may have prevented the shipwreck of a migrant boat off Steccato di ...

Italy's deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, is to stand trial again for his crackdown on the arrival of Mediterranean ...

Rescuers recover a body at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas, Feb. 26, 2023. Giuseppe Pipita/AP ...

ROME — A migrant boat broke apart off Italy’s southwestern Calabrian coast on Sunday, authorities said, leaving at least 59 dead and triggering a search mission in rough waters.

The boat sank over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy. About 25 people were rescued. Thousands of migrants have reached Italy's tiny Lampedusa island in the past few days.

Dozens of migrants, including 12 children, are dead after their ship broke apart off the southern coast of Italy on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. More than 170 people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia ...

Dozens Drown as Migrant Boat Breaks Up Near Italian Beach. High waves and strong winds dashed a wooden boat against rocks on the coast of Calabria, in southern Italy, killing at least 59 migrants.

A wooden boat crowded with migrants smashed into rocky reefs and broke apart before dawn Sunday off the Italian coast, authorities said. Rescuers recovered nearly 60 bodies, and dozens more people ...