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The UN’s refugee and migration agencies have criticized Greece’s failure over the past year to shed light on one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea that left hundreds dead. UNHCR and IOM stressed the “critical”…
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Human rights groups have raised concerns that the upcoming trial in Greece of nine Egyptians who survived the Pylos shipwreck in 2023 may not be fair. The nine are charged with “smuggling, aggravated by the deaths of passengers, causing…
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Italy’s coast guard on Saturday found one person dead following a migrant shipwreck off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, Ansa news agency reported, as searches were still ongoing for two people said to be missing. Ansa said the…
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A rubber boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants sank off the coast of Libya and at least 55 people drowned, including women and children, the UN migration agency said Wednesday. It was the latest tragedy in this part of the…
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A fourth suspected human trafficker has been arrested in connection with a shipwreck off southern Italy last month in which at least 72 people died, an Italian police official said on Wednesday. The suspect, a 27-year-old Turkish…
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Fifty-eight people died, including some children, when a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants crashed against rocks on the southern Italian coast early on Sunday, authorities said. The vessel had set sail from Turkiye several days ago…
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Explorers have found the wreck of a ship wrecked deep under water, a US Navy destroyer that sank during World War II. The destroyer USS Samuel Roberts (DE-413) was found on Wednesday in the Philippine Sea. https://youtu.be/zB3_LWBBch8…
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A rare gold coin from the "world's most expensive shipwreck", the ill-fated Nuestra Senora de Atocha, has been found off the Florida Keys. Zack Moore, an engineer at Mel Fisher's Treasures, discovered the gold coin on July 16, marking…
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The Nigerian authorities announced today, Friday, that at least 76 people have died in a boat accident in the Niger River. A spokesman for Nigeria's Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Dakinjari, said authorities had recovered more than 70…
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