Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. After a boat carrying migrants from Libya capsized in the Mediterranean Sea earlier this week, about 20 migrants are ...

A boat carrying nearly 100 migrants capsized Wednesday in international waters near the Italian island of Lampedusa, leaving at least 26 people dead and around a dozen missing, Italian authorities and ...

At Genoa’s waterfront on the Ligurian Sea, the sun is shining following a brief but powerful autumn shower. Moving among the luxury boats bobbing on the water in front of a Jean Nouvel-designed ...

ROME — 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 ...

Deciding to cross the Mediterranean Sea in a smuggler's boat is, for many, a final act of desperation. Thousands of people drown every year trying to reach Europe. NPR's Ruth Sherlock has spent this ...

ROME — 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 ...