At least 70 people are missing and two bodies have been recovered after a boat carrying migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, an Italian NGO said on Sunday (5 April).
The wooden vessel with 105 people aboard, including children, overturned on Saturday afternoon, Mediterranea Saving Humans said in a post on X.
An aircraft belonging to another NGO, Sea Watch, spotted the overturned boat with 15 people clinging to the hull.
Survivors were rescued with the assistance of nearby merchant ships and disembarked on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday morning.
Mediterranea Saving Humans said there were 32 survivors from the shipwrecked vessel.
As of February, 606 migrants are recorded as having died trying to cross the Mediterranean, according to the UN-linked International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
In 2025, at least 2,185 people died or went missing in the Mediterranean.
The European Union (EU) has spent €700 million on supporting Libya since 2015, under various funding arrangements.
Despite this, in 2025 there was only a one percent decrease in irregular entries to the EU via the central Mediterranean route, which mainly includes crossings from Libya and Tunisia.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan have concluded talks in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.
Iran has reached an understanding with Oman on transit arrangements through the Strait of Hormuz, but the waterway will remain closed until the U.S. fulfils its commitments, a senior Iranian diplomat said on Saturday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused U.S. government and Israel-aligned actors of manipulating energy markets to promote the war with Iran.
Russian strikes on the Kyiv region overnight killed 37 people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Zelenskyy added that the Ukrainian capital was under "virtually nonstop attack" from drones.
U.S. forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island on Sunday, with Tehran responding by launching ballistic missiles at two U.S. bases in Jordan in the first direct U.S.-Iran military escalation in weeks.
Kyrgyzstan is hosting the sixth World Nomad Games, bringing together thousands of athletes from around the world for a celebration of traditional sports, cultural heritage and nomadic traditions.
Pakistan is set to take over the rotating chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation after the bloc’s leaders meet in Bishkek. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived on Friday to attend the SCO Council of Heads of State meeting and SCO Plus Summit, which run until 2 September.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned the actions of Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Qusra, saying security operations should be handled only by state institutions, including the army and police.
Rescue teams in Nepal, supported by Chinese and Indian experts, worked through the night to reach hundreds of people believed to be trapped inside blocked hydropower project tunnels following last week’s catastrophic Himalayan flood.
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