Based on the reverence the Titanic has in public consciousness, you would think that it was the worst shipwreck of all time. In reality, there was a shipwreck 30 years later that made the Titanic look ...

Police, coastguard officials accused of involuntary manslaughter; case shines light on policies of far-right government.

The Mediterranean remains the primary gateway to Europe for refugees and migrants—and one of the deadliest. In 2025 alone, more than 146,000 people attempted sea crossings to Europe. During the same ...

Fifteen migrants died when their boat collided with a Greek coast guard vessel off Chios. The tragedy has rekindled scrutiny ...

The disaster is feared to have killed up to 800 people, making it one of the deadliest shipwrecks in decades of seaborne migration from North Africa towards Europe. Italy has begun raising the wreck ...

Italian officials have put the death toll in the April 2015 migrant shipwreck at between 750 and 800 people, following autopsies on the remains retrieved from inside the vessel. That figure is in line ...

By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) -A Greek prosecutor has extended charges to four more senior coast guard officers over one of the Mediterranean's deadliest accidents, a 2023 shipwreck in which ...