Migrant Boats

A group of migrants in a wooden boat are towed by a Spanish coast guard vessel to the port of Arguineguin, in the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, October 21, 2023. REUTERS/Borja Suarez
World+Biz

Over one thousand migrants reach Spain's Canary Islands in single day

The Red Cross, which was helping to treat the migrants, said a wooden boat that arrived on the island of El Hierro marked a record number of arrivals in a single boat

"Notre Dame du Risban", an SNSM lifeboat, enters the port of Calais following a rescue operation after a migrant boat trying to cross the Channel from France capsized, in Calais, France, August 12, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
World+Biz

At least six dead, dozens rescued as migrant boat crossing Channel from France capsizes

A boat in distress with about 400 people on board is pictured in Central Mediterranean Sea in this handout obtained by Reuters on April 10, 2023. File Photo: Giacomo Zorzi/ Sea-Watch/Handout via REUTERS
World+Biz

41 migrants missing after new Mediterranean shipwreck

A boat in distress with about 400 people on board is pictured in Central Mediterranean Sea in this handout obtained by Reuters on April 10, 2023. File Photo: Giacomo Zorzi/ Sea-Watch/Handout via REUTERS
Europe

Spain possibly locates missing boat carrying 200 migrants, sends help

FILE PHOTO: Workers are seen at a construction site in Sandton outside Johannesburg, South Africa June 20,2016. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo
Africa

Tunisia coastguards intercept boats carrying mostly Bangladeshi and Syrian migrants