Dozens of migrants crammed onto a makeshift vessel that was taking on water were rescued near the Dominican Republic on Monday night, officials said. The "grossly overloaded" 35-foot vessel was ...

Italian lawmakers on Thursday approved a government decree that allows migrants aged 16 or 17 to be held in adult reception centres and gives police stronger powers to check that migrants are not ...

TRIPOLI, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday said 163 illegal migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya in the past week. "From Nov. 19 to Nov. 25 ...

As temperatures drop and snow falls, the city is facing pressure to find warm places to shelter thousands of migrants, many of them who fled desperate conditions in Venezuela. More than 1,400 ...

"From Nov. 19 to Nov. 25, 163 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya," IOM said in a statement, Xinhua reports. The rescued migrants included 20 women and 12 children, IOM said, adding that ...

TRIPOLI, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday said 163 illegal migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya in the past week. "From Nov. 19 to Nov. 25 ...

AN RNLI crew rescued dozens of migrants from French waters — and brought them to Britain. The lifeboat was called in by the authorities in France after the engine on the migrants’ boat failed.

TRIPOLI, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday said 163 illegal migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya in the past week. "From Nov. 19 to Nov. 25 ...

Some migrants had been rescued by the French Navy. Those picked up by the RNLI were taken to Dungeness, Kent, where they were met by ambulances. One could be seen being carried off on a stretcher.

Operations began on Sunday to rescue a group of migrants who had been stuck on a cliff since Friday evening after their boat crashed against a rock upon their arrival at the island, according to local ...