The death toll from an accident involving a boat carrying migrants south of the Greek island of Crete has risen to at least five, according to the coastguard. Officials said that 39 people had been ...

Overcrowded and poorly made boats are still causing deaths in the Mediterranean. A refugee appears exhausted while swimming towards the shore after a dinghy carrying Syrian and Afghan refugees ...

One woman drowned when a dinghy carrying dozens of people sank off the island of Lesbos on Wednesday, Greek coastguard officials said, as more migrants fleeing conflict and poverty attempt to enter ...

UNHCR is dismayed to have learned of a boat cap-sizing off the coast of Greece in the early hours of this morning, which has left a woman and a child dead and 10 other people missing, among them ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — More than 600 migrants were rescued overnight and early Friday from two wooden fishing boats found sailing miles (kilometers) from the southernmost part of Greece, the country's ...

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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two boats carrying migrants sank in the early hours of Thursday in the narrow stretch of sea between Turkey and a nearby Greek island, leaving at least 16 people dead, one ...