Spain

Spanish rescuers pull 208 migrants from boats in sea and ocean

The rescue operation adds to Spain's rise in arrivals of people who risked a perilous seaborne journey to reach Europe.

4 September 2021

World News

Humanitarian ships rescue over 700 migrants from Mediterranean

The ships are awaiting permission to dock at a safe southern European port to disembark their passengers.

2 August 2021

World News

Sea Watch 4: Rescue ship carrying 455 migrants docks in Sicily

A rescue vessel with hundreds of migrants aboard has disembarked at the Italian port of Trapani.

4 May 2021

World News

17 people found dead on migrant boat off Spain's Canary Islands

Spanish rescuers found seventeen people dead and managed to save three on a migrant boat off the island of El Hierro.

26 April 2021

Turkey

At least two dead after cargo ship sinks off Turkey in Black Sea

A Turkish official said emergency workers had saved at least six crew members and found the bodies of two others.

17 January 2021

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Italian coastguard rescues 31 migrants off coast of Lampedusa

The boat had capsized 5 km out to sea and was spotted by helicopter.

15 November 2020

World

Spain's Canary Islands sees 1,600 migrants arrive over one weekend

There has been a sharp increase in the number of West African migrants attempting to reach the Canary Islands in recent months.

9 November 2020

Earth News

120 whales have been rescued on a beach in Sri Lanka

The pilot whales were stranded after the worst mass beaching in the country's history.

3 November 2020

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Japanese coastguard rescues second survivor from capsized cattle ship

Japanese authorities have rescued a second survivor as they race to find dozens of missing sailors from a cargo ship that sank in a typhoon.

5 September 2020

Greece

Greek coast guard rescues 96 migrants from sinking yacht

Search and rescue operations continued on Wednesday, as the total number of people on board is not known.

26 August 2020

Italy

Rescue operations underway to save sperm whale trapped in fishing net

Authorities blamed the incident on unlawful fishing, as they seized over 100 km of illegal fishing nets since January.

19 July 2020

Italy

Stranded Ocean Viking migrants still waiting to disembark in Sicily

Most of them have been at sea for more than a week.

5 July 2020

World

How COVID-19 is complicating Europe's migrant problem

The return of NGO migrant rescue ships to the Mediterranean has brought Europe's migrant problem back into focus. And the issue is being compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.

3 July 2020

The Cube

Migrant rescue ships facing new challenges amid COVID-19 pandemic

Vessels have been forced to introduce radical changes in a bid to contain the virus among those rescued at sea.

25 June 2020

Italy

Migrant rescue ships return to the Mediterranean after lockdown

As they return to the seas for the first time since April, rescue ship operators say migrants fleeing Libya's humanitarian crisis are undeterred by Europe's coronavirus outbreak

23 June 2020

World News

Boat carrying 91 migrants goes missing in Mediterranean

News of the missing boat comes amid criticism of the European Union's lack of rescue missions in the Mediterranean Sea.

20 February 2020

World News

Migrants tell of their 'Libyan hell' as they arrive in Europe

The testimony of the 79 people rescued by the Aita Mari match with those of human rights organisations working in Libya: detention centres are places for torture and extortion. "You get arrested just because you are black," Ismail explained.

26 November 2019

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Watch: Shocking footage shows girl rescued by divers off Italian coast

The coastguard saved 149 people, including 13 women and three children, from a ship that sank on Saturday.

25 November 2019

Greece

'I was blown away': Tourist adrift for two days survived on sweets

The 47-year old woman was floating in a rubber dinghy in the Aegean Sea for nearly two days before she was rescued by Greek coast guards.

5 November 2019

World News

German rescue ship docks in Italy with 88 asylum-seekers

"We are extremely relieved to finally bring the remaining 88 exhausted and traumatised rescued persons to a safe port soon," said German NGO Sea-Eye.

2 November 2019