Over 50 African migrants feared dead in Atlantic
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Rescuers have found the bodies of seven African migrants in a boat adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, while almost 50 others are missing from the vessel trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands, Spanish authorities said Thursday.
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Two boats carrying would-be migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe sank Wednesday between Italy and Libya, leaving five people dead, including a child, Italian officials said. Eleven others were missing and presumed dead.
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Migrants wait in Libya for calmer spring seas before risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean
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A boat carrying Haitian migrants caught fire off the coast of the Dominican Republic, leaving at least eight passengers dead and 44 missing, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said Thursday.
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Various European officials are trumpeting a substantial drop in the number of African migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
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Â· Crowds condemn attacks that killed at least 52 Â· Fears that North Africans now part of terror network
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At least 30 Somali and Ethiopian migrants drowned when a smuggler's boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, adding it was checking reports the death toll was as high as 78.
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Hopes of finding about 50 migrants missing after their boat capsized in rough seas off Africa dimmed Friday as Spanish rescuers resumed a major air and sea search, authorities said.
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Fearing for the health of the tourist trade, locals in the Canary Islands want more to be done about migrants arriving by boat from Africa.
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By Lydia Polgreen  Two dozen people were rescued and dozens more were feared dead after a boat carrying people trying to reach the Canary Islands was wrecked in northern Senegal, officials have said.
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Rescuers scoured the seas off the Canary Islands Thursday for around 50 illegal immigrants who went missing after their vessel capsized as it was trying to reach the Spanish archipelago, emergency services said.
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The bodies of five would-be illegal immigrants have been spotted in the sea off the Italian island of Lampedusa by a naval military aircraft, after a second ship carrying immigrants sank in the area in two days.
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An Italian trawler captain says at least 24 African migrants died when their dinghy collapsed off Malta.
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European governments said that dozens of their nationals were killed in the devastating tidal waves that hit south and southeast Asia amid fears of more still missing, including many presumed to have been swept out to sea.
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Foreign Minister Jack Straw said 49 Britons had died and a further 391 were missing feared dead following the tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean.
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A small boat packed with Africans trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands capsized Friday in rough seas, leaving one person dead and 32 missing, authorities said.
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At least 100 Somalis are feared drowned in the massive waves produced by Sunday&#39;s undersea earthquake off the coast of Indonesia.