LESVOS, Greece, Sept. 20 (UNHCR) -- UNHCR staff on Sunday were caring for survivors of two separate weekend incidents involving boats carrying refugees and migrants between Turkey and Greece that left ...

Refugees wait in a small rubber boat in the Mediterranean Sea [File: Chris McGrath/Getty Images] At least 50 people have died after a vessel carrying 75 Sudanese refugees caught fire near the Libyan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Refugees and asylum seekers on board an overcrowded boat are approached by the crew of the search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 5, ...

Lampedusa: At least 27 migrants and refugees drowned on Thursday following a tragic shipwreck off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, according to a statement by the United Nations High ...

Refugees and migrants attempting to reach Europe via the Mediterranean Sea lost their lives at an alarming rate in 2018, as cuts in search and rescue operations reinforced its position as the world’s ...

The number of asylum seekers who crossed the Mediterranean sea in hopes of finding refuge in Europe hit a new record last month–218,394 people made the dangerous journey in October, according to the ...

Around 100 German politicians and journalists crowded into a dinghy on Berlin's river Spree on Tuesday as part of an initiative by a German charity to raise awareness of the precarious conditions on ...

At least 40 people are estimated to have drowned off the coast of Libya in the latest boat disaster on the Mediterranean. This shocking incident has prompted UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency to renew its ...

The large majority of the 137,000 people who crossed the Mediterranean Sea into Europe during the first six months of 2015 were fleeing from war, conflict or persecution, making the Mediterranean ...

BARCELONA, Spain — Three young sisters have died after an overcrowded rubber dinghy took on water in bad weather while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy, a German nonprofit organization ...

Migrants and refugees from Africa sailing adrift on an overcrowded rubber boat, receive life jackets from aid workers of the Spanish NGO Aita Mary in the Mediterranean Sea, about 103 miles (165 km) ...