Mediterranean Sea

Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk announced on Tuesday that it will continue to avoid Red Sea shipping lanes for the “foreseeable future” due to terrorist attacks by the Iran-sponsored Houthi insurgents of Yemen.

The Mediterranean Sea could be “closed” indefinitely by Iran if the U.S. and Israel continued “crimes” in Gaza, an Iranian state report Saturday warned.

Five members of the U.S. Army were killed in a training accident late Friday when their helicopter had a “mishap” causing it to crash into the Mediterranean Sea, officials said Sunday.

U.S. Central Command said the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group arrived in the Middle East early Sunday making it part of the CENTCOM area of responsibility.

A Greek captain and three of his crew faced homicide charges Wednesday over the death of a tardy passenger who was pushed into the sea.

Italy is on pace to see a record number of illegal boat migrants land on its shores as landings surged by 150 per cent.

Germany and France are joining forces to try to curb deaths on dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea from countries like Tunisia.

Nine Egyptian men, alleged to be people smugglers, have been arrested after a migrant boat capsized off Greece, leaving hundreds feared dead.

When they have larger boats, Med smugglers are staying in international waters as they pass by Greece to try to avoid coast guard patrols.

January to March of this year was the deadliest first quarter for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean since 2017, with 441 deaths.

Govt figures reveal the number of illegals coming to Italy has nearly tripled this year compared to the same period in 2022.

An NGO migrant “taxi” ship has been fined 10,000 euros and placed into administrative detention for 20 days for violating a security decree enacted by the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

NGOs operating migrant “taxi” ships have complained to the European Union about new Italian border controls, but the bloc has claimed it will not get involved.

The number of illegals landing is past 100,000 for the first time since 2017, as the government struggles to deal with waves of boats.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni is said to be considering backing a “Marshall Plan” for Africa as a long-term solution to halt migration flows.

Frontex claimed activities of migrant taxi NGO ships in the Mediterranean act as a pull factor for migrants considering the deadly journey. 

The German-based migrant taxi NGO Sea-Watch has announced it is preparing to launch its fifth vessel to the Mediterranean.

Italian authorities arrested two Bangladeshi people smugglers accused of torturing migrants in Libya in order to get money from the migrants. 

A German migrant taxi NGO has claimed the EU has worked to allow Libyan authorities to return migrants to North Africa from EU waters. 

The fleet of migrant taxi NGOs operating in the Mediterranean sea has picked up and dropped off over 10,000 migrants in the EU this year. 

The body of a man allegedly shot and killed by people smugglers was found on a trafficker’s boat by a migrant taxi NGO.

Italy has seen over a thousand migrants arrive on Sicily Lampedusa in a day, once again overwhelming migrant reception centres.

Two Syrian children, aged just one and two years old, were found dead after dying of thirst aboard a people smuggler boat.

With illegal boat migrant landings happening in numbers equal to previous crisis peaks this month, it is estimated that as many as 100,000 could enter Italy by the end of 2022.

Eleven Moroccan children were rescued by Spanish authorities near the exclave of Ceuta this week after they attempted to cross the Strait of Gibraltar alone in a small boat.

The Italian Interior Ministry figures show that illegal migrant arrivals are up more than 40 per cent so far this year.

Dozens of migrants are missing and feared to be dead after a boat smuggling them into Europe capsized off the coast of Greece.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has revealed an estimated 600 people have been led by smugglers to their deaths in the first three months of this year, a surge in numbers compared to prior years. According to the IOM,

Since the start of the year, Italy has seen over 17,000 illegal immigrants arrive in its territory, up 28.5% from the same period last year.

Over 3,000 people are said to have gone missing or died at sea trying to reach Europe over the course of last year, according to the UNHCR.

Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has reported that so far this year, at least 6,701 migrants have arrived in Italy by sea, with around half of the migrants needing to be rescued. According to Minister Lamorgese, 3,323  of the 6701 migrants were

Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjártó has praised the Egyptian government for its commitment to stopping illegal migrants who wish to depart from its coast for Europe.

Libyan authorities intercepted 30,990 migrants heading for Europe in 2021 according to UN statistics, a trebling of the year prior.

35,000 illegal migrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2021, an all-time record for arrivals.

The German migrant taxi NGO Sea-Watch has picked up 446 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea over the Christmas weekend.

Around 800 migrants are on three different NGO migrant “taxi” ships are awaiting port access after being picked up in the Mediterranean.