Rescue seemed so close at hand. A ship with experience plucking migrants from unseaworthy smuggler's boats had arrived soon after the distress call went out. But then the fishing trawler's...

Rescue seemed so close at hand. A ship with experience plucking migrants from unseaworthy smuggler's boats had arrived soon after the distress call went out. But then the fishing trawler's...

EUROPE-MIGRANTS CATANIA, Sicily — Italian prosecutors have begun building their case against the people suspected of being responsible for the drowning of as many as 950 migrants in the...

EUROPE-MIGRANTS CATANIA, Sicily — Italian prosecutors have begun building their case against the people suspected of being responsible for the drowning of as many as 950 migrants in the...

EUROPE-MIGRANTS CATANIA, Sicily — Italian prosecutors have begun building their case against the people suspected of being responsible for the drowning of as many as 950 migrants in the...

EUROPE-MIGRANTS CATANIA, Sicily — Italian prosecutors have begun building their case against the people suspected of being responsible for the drowning of as many as 950 migrants in the...

EUROPE-MIGRANTS CATANIA, Sicily — Italian prosecutors have begun building their case against the people suspected of being responsible for the drowning of as many as 950 migrants in the...

EUROPE-MIGRANTS CATANIA, Sicily — Italian prosecutors have begun building their case against the people suspected of being responsible for the drowning of as many as 950 migrants in the...

EUROPE-MIGRANTS CATANIA, Sicily — Italian prosecutors have begun building their case against the people suspected of being responsible for the drowning of as many as 950 migrants in the...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stressed that saving human lives at sea should remain a priority and that implementing a plan for resettlement is a must.  In comments to...