FILE – This summer, there have been numerous shipwrecks of smugglers’ boats leaving from Tunisia bound for Italy. File image for representation. | Photo Credit: AP Forty-one people are believed dead after a migrant boat capsized off Tunisia, Italian state RAI television reported, citing four survivors who were rescued and brought to land Wednesday. According to … Read more
In this photo provided by the Tunisian Presidency, Tunisian President Kais Saied shakes hand with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the presidential palace in Carthage, Tunisia, Sunday, July 16, 2023. European leaders and Tunisia’s President have announced progress in the building of hoped-for closer economic and trade relations and on measures to combat the … Read more
CNN — As a boat carrying 400 migrants drifted, out of fuel, along a perilous migration route in the central Mediterranean last week, Italian authorities led a major rescue operation following the reported refusal of Maltese authorities to retrieve those on board. Passengers’ desperate pleas for aid went unheeded for nearly a week before they … Read more
At least 19 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a human rights group said on Sunday. In the past four days, five migrant boats have sunk off the southern city of Sfax, leaving 67 missing and nine dead, … Read more
Police officers stand guard outside Tunisia’s parliament as the new parliament, elected in December and January in a vote with the ultra-low turnout, holds its first session, in Tunis, Tunisia, on March 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Tunisia’s new parliament convened on March 13, the first time the country has had a functioning legislature … Read more
People wearing face masks walk in front of the Trevi Fountain following a government decree that states face coverings must be worn between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. near bars and pubs and in areas where gatherings are more likely, due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Rome, Italy. (Courtesy: Reuters photo/File) Sicily’s governor … Read more
Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Abu Dhabi, UAE CNN — The devastating earthquake that hit Turkey on February 6 killed at least 45,000 people, rendered millions homeless across almost a dozen cities … Read more