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The article reports on shipwreck of the fishing boat, Adriana, carrying hundreds of migrants from eastern Libya hoping to reach Italy. Topics discussed include accusation against a Greek Coast Guard ship as being the cause of the fishing boat capsizing, the problem of Europe with smugglers, and estimated number of migrants who died on routes within and from the Middle East and North Africa in 2022.

The article discusses a crisis of increasing numbers of migrants dying during efforts to migrate to Europe from Africa and the Middle East, highlighting reports that as many as 900 migrants may have died off the coast of Libya in a shipwreck in April of 2015. Topics addressed include the Italian government's response to the crisis, the rescue of survivors of the shipwreck, and a similar ship accident in Greece.

The article covers the April 21, 2015 shipwreck of a boat transporting migrants off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea, killing hundreds of passengers. It examines how this event impacts Europe's ongoing debate on its response to Libyan refugees and overall migration policies. Comments from Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi are included.

The article reports that the Italian authorities recovered the remains of drowned migrants from a sunken fishing vessel in the Mediterranean sea.

The article reports on the arrest of five men by Italian police officers on August 7, 2015 in connection to the shipwreck off the Libyan coast on August 5, 2015 that killed several migrants, and were charged with multiple homicides and human trafficking.

The article announces the conviction of Francesco Schettino, the captain of the ship Costa Concordia, for the death of 32 individuals during the shipwreck in 2012.

The article reports on the announcement of salvage companies in Giglio, Italy that the wreck of luxury liner Costa Concordia which ran aground off the Tuscan coast in 2012 may be removed by the end of summer 2013.

GIGLIO, Italy -- As the first tourists of the season cross the channel between the Tuscan mainland and the island of Giglio, the breathtaking view they are seeking is not of Giglio's crystal-clear waters or its ochre and pink granite rocks. The eye-catching attraction -- and eyesore -- is the capsized Costa Concordia, all 591 feet of it lying just outside the entrance to the port, an ever-present reminder of the disaster that took 32 lives three months ago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hundreds of lawyers, victims' families and survivors of the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which capsized off the Tuscan coast in January, converged on Grosseto, Italy, on Saturday for the first evidence hearing in the criminal investigation against the ship's captain and others. So many people had the right to attend that prosecutors had to move the hearing from the courthouse to a 1,000-seat theater. More than 4,230 people are considered parties in the case, and there were more than 50 lawyers at the hearing on Saturday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Italian prosecutors placed seven more people under investigation in connection with the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia: four ship officers who were on board the luxury liner the night of the accident in January, and three managers for Costa Cruises. The ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, and his first officer, Ciro Ambrosio, are already being investigated. Also on Wednesday, divers found eight more of the bodies of those listed as missing. Thirty-two people died in the accident; seven have not yet been found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

FLORENCE, Italy -- A judge in Florence continued on Tuesday the house arrest of Francesco Schettino, the captain of the luxury liner that ran aground off the Tuscan coast on Jan. 13, leaving 17 people dead and 15 still unaccounted for. Amid a highly heated public debate in Italy about the shipwreck of the liner, the Costa Concordia, a Florence appeals court rejected both the prosecutors' request to imprison the captain and the request of Captain Schettino's lawyer to have him released. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

GIGLIO, Italy -- New evidence emerged Wednesday that suggested the captain of the Costa Concordia had been repeatedly ordered by superiors to deviate from its course on Jan. 13 and head toward picturesque Giglio Island off the Tuscan coast, where the 950-foot luxury cruise liner crashed and partly sank. In leaked telephone transcripts of the captain's conversations with an unidentified official from Costa Cruises, the ship's operator, recorded while the captain was in police custody after escaping the shipwreck, he is heard saying Costa Cruises managers had insisted on the changed course and that ''anyone else in my place wouldn't have been so nice as to go there.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

GIGLIO, Italy -- The captain of the cruise ship that capsized aground near an Italian island, killing at least five people, may have caused the accident by taking the ship too close to the island's rocky shore, the owner of the vessel said on Sunday, as rescue workers extracted three survivors and two bodies from the wreck. The captain, Francesco Schettino, 52, of Naples, Italy, was detained for questioning by the Italian police on charges of manslaughter, failure to offer assistance and abandonment of the ship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the testimonies of shipwreck survivors, about the situation of the migrant ship that collided with the Portuguese freighter ship King Jacob, in Italy. According to undisclosed survivors, the captain of the big ship performed wrong maneuvers upon seeing the King Jacob ship approaching that resulted to its collision with the ship while the migrants crowded on one side of the boat, thus it capsize. Moreover, the migrant ship captain Mohammed Ali Malek is arrested.