A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia, overwhelmed a tiny southern Italian island on Wednesday, taxing the coast guard's capability to intercept the smugglers ...

Migrants waded out to sea to climb up into the crowded boat, while families with young children turned back on the beach.

A Sudanese man died off the French coast of Calais on July 19 while attempting to reach England. This marks the third death ...

The BBC's Home Affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, was reporting live as a crowded migrant boat set sail for the UK from Calais in France. He said French police made no attempt to stop the boat ...

The Utopia 56 charity says more and more people are crowding onto boats because fewer are leaving France for Britain after a ...

At least 13 women, some of them pregnant, drowned when a boat crowded with migrants capsized in the Mediterranean moments before they were due to be rescued. Italian officials said at least a ...

Rescue officials say an undetermined number of migrants have died and dozens have been rescued after their boat broke apart off southern Italy. [AP] A wooden boat crowded with migrants smashed ...

An aid group that rescues migrants stranded in the Mediterranean has said one of their missions was interrupted by armed bandits. The raiders boarded the overloaded boat and sped away after the ...

A woman has died after being "crushed" on an overcrowded migrant dinghy headed for the UK. Around 75 people were sat on the ...

But that’s across the Florida Straits, and Liset Barrios gets nervous on a boat. So on May 13 ... “irregular migrants” trying to stay out of sight en route from a poor place with scant ...