Italy's island of Lampedusa is only 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Tunisia. Totalling 110, the migrants were on board two makeshift boats that set sail off "the coast near Sfax on the night of ...

The rescued and dead passengers, who were found off the Kerkennah Islands off central Tunisia, were aiming to ... the coastguard rescued 27 African migrants near Jebeniana, north of Sfax, but ...