Ragusa police said a Tunisian man had been detained on suspicion of smuggling after 12 fellow Tunisians aboard a wooden boat told authorities he had promised to sail them to an isolated beach near Trapani, western Sicily, at night so they could slip away undetected.
At least 55 people were thought to have been on the boat, Australian authorities said.
The pilot ditched in the icy Hudson River and all on board were rescued by a flotilla of converging ferries and emergency boats, the authorities said.
Two babies were among nine refugees who drowned trying to cross from Turkey to Greece after their boat capsized, Turkish authorities have said.
Twelve people were rescued Sunday afternoon from a sinking boat off Marina del Rey, authorities said.
The crew freed themselves and sailed the Lapin into Thai waters where, with the help of a passing fishing boat, they notified authorities of the attack.
In September, these occupants of a Greenpeace vessel were plucked from their boat by Russian authorities after staging a protest on an oil rig in the Arctic Ocean, and now face the prospect of spending years in a Russian prison.
China is building 30 sea vessels for maritime law enforcement over the next five years, adding to an expanding fleet of boats under civilian authorities that operates occasionally in disputed territorial waters, according to an article in People's Daily.
"Even if their dicks are big enough to smash a boat horn with authority, or their faces are lit up like Gulf War scud missile footage after midnight, their sex — purposeful, vaunted celebrity sex — is still incredibly dull".
On social media, residents are sharing stories of people volunteering their boats to help authorities with rescue attempts.
