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More than 60 people drown in migrant shipwreck off Libya, UN says
Middle East
December 17, 2023
More than 60 people drown in migrant shipwreck off Libya, UN says
CNN — Around 61 migrants, including women and children, have drowned following a “tragic shipwreck” off the coast of Libya,…
At least 13 people drown in migrant shipwreck off Libya
Middle East
September 25, 2020
At least 13 people drown in migrant shipwreck off Libya
CAIRO (AP) — Over a dozen migrants trying to reach Europe drowned in the Mediterranean Sea when their small dinghy…
The Latest: Boat with 86 migrants capsizes off Tunisia
Middle East
July 4, 2019
The Latest: Boat with 86 migrants capsizes off Tunisia
CAIRO (AP) — The Latest on migrants from Libya (all times local): 3:15 p.m. The U.N. migration agency says a…
Boat described by Herodotus 2,500 years ago found in Alexandria
Archaeology
March 26, 2019
Boat described by Herodotus 2,500 years ago found in Alexandria
A group of researchers have discovered a sunken boat of a type first described by ancient Greek historian Herodotus almost…
World’s ‘oldest intact shipwreck’ found in Black Sea
Archaeology
October 23, 2018
World’s ‘oldest intact shipwreck’ found in Black Sea
An ancient Greek trading ship dating back more than 2,400 years has been found virtually intact at the bottom…
Libya shipwreck toll rises to 111, dozens missing
Middle East
August 29, 2015
Libya shipwreck toll rises to 111, dozens missing
Rescuers have retrieved from the sea the bodies of 111 migrants whose boat sank off the coast of Libya, the…
Hundreds missing, many elderly tourists, after ship capsizes on China’s Yangtze River
World
June 2, 2015
Hundreds missing, many elderly tourists, after ship capsizes on China’s Yangtze River
Rescuers searched on Tuesday for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a cruise boat…
Exclusive: “Forced to captain migrant boat at gunpoint”
Middle East
April 26, 2015
Exclusive: “Forced to captain migrant boat at gunpoint”
The Tunisian man accused of piloting a migrant boat that sank off Libya, killing more than 700 people, is himself…
Italian prosecutors blame captain for collision in migrant shipwreck
World
April 22, 2015
Italian prosecutors blame captain for collision in migrant shipwreck
Italian prosecutors blamed the captain of a grossly overloaded fishing boat for a collision which capsized and sank his vessel…
400 migrants die in shipwreck off Libya, survivors say
Egypt
April 15, 2015
400 migrants die in shipwreck off Libya, survivors say
About 400 migrants died in an attempt to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized, survivors said on Tuesday,…