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A vessel carrying as many as 60 people people capsized off the coast of the Bahamas. The islands have seen a recent increase in human smuggling incidents, as Haitians flee dire conditions back home.

There has been a series of rescues in recent days in the central Mediterranean, Italian coast guard says.

Italian vessels have recovered five bodies and rescued 674 people packed on a fishing boat adrift in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast, the Italian Coast Guard said Sunday, while European charities reported saving more than 500 more. Some of the survivors had to be plucked from the sea in…

Ships in the Mediterranean Sea have rescued over 1,100 people struggling to reach Europe in rickety smugglers' boats and found five bodies

The Rescue 117 helicopter, Bonmahon lifeboat, the Coast Guard and personnel from Waterford Ambulance Station all responded to the potentially life-threatening scene.

MIAMI — An overloaded sailboat carrying more than 150 migrants was stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies Thursday morning off Boca Chita Key, a small Upper Florida Keys island located in South Miami-Dade County.

Members of the public scoured the beach looking for a little boy in an orange t-shirt

The injured person was brought to hospital for treatment

Officers awarded ‘Golden Wings’; marks culmination of a rigorous 38-week course

MIAMI — The creativity that goes into making many of the migrant boats that take Cubans on their dangerous journey across the Florida Straits reflects the desperation they feel to leave their homeland for a better life.

Authorities in Greece say two members of a helicopter crew battling a forest fire on the Greek island of Samos died when it crashed into the sea