In a rare clampdown on people-smugglers, authorities in the coastal town of Zuwara arrested three Libyan nationals aged between 21 and 29 in connection with a tragedy at sea that is believed to have cost the life of at least 250 people. The men, all from...
Police on Friday revised upward to 71 the number of dead found inside a truck abandoned on the hard shoulder of a highway in Austria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqgosbOU6Hw The airtight freezer truck, bearing the logo of the Slovak poultry producer Hyza, was discovered on a highway near the Hungarian border on Thursday (27...
The bodies of five children, aged between aged between one and three-years-old, were among 12 recovered following the latest tragedy off the Libyan coast in which hundreds of people are feared dead. [caption id="attachment_4378" align="alignnone" width="960"] A member of the Libya Red Crescent comforts a survivor from...
One man avoided becoming another number on the Mediterranean's growing death toll when he was resuscitated on board a boat from which 52 bodies were recovered on Wednesday. But only just barely. [caption id="attachment_4362" align="alignnone" width="1024"] A man suffering from asphyxia being rescusitated as three bodies lay...
Around 67 migrants died or are feared dead off Libya after more than 3,000 people attempted the crossing between Tuesday and Wednesday. [caption id="attachment_4324" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Migrants on the deck of a wooden boat carrying some 600 people. The operation took several hours as rescuers were overwhelmed...
More than 10,000 people crossed into Serbia in recent days and many more are expected as asylum are pushing through nearby Macedonia in greater numbers desperate to get to Hungary before the country seals its border with a fence. [caption id="attachment_4301" align="alignnone" width="1024"] UNHCR said the people...
Some 302 migrants where brought to shore in Italy on Tuesday morning, many of them hoping to build a new life in Europe. With them was a 15-year-old boy who made it all the way from Somalia on his own but then lost a long battle...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande will be demanding a more unified response for the EU, as the epicentre of Europe's migration moves north. Following a meeting in Berlin on Monday the two leaders emerged with a pledge to lobby for greater the bloc to...
Around 4,400 people were rescued outside Libyan territorial waters within 24 hours between Saturday and Sunday, in one of the busiest days in the Mediterranean this year. [caption id="attachment_4274" align="alignnone" width="1024"] A rescue operation on Saturday coordinated by the Italian navy. Photo: Italian Navy[/caption] In a statement on Sunday,...
France and the UK have signed a deal for the setting up of a "control and command centre" that deals with the migrant crisis in the French port town of Calais. [caption id="attachment_4246" align="aligncenter" width="786"] French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve and his British counterpart Theresa May.[/caption] The centre will...