MANILA, Philippines – The rubber boats and outboard motor engines purchased at the height of Typhoon “Ondoy” in 2009 were three times higher than the boats and engines that went to the Special Action ...

The supplier of the controversial rubber boats and outboard motors purchased by the Philippine National Police (PNP) in 2009 explained to investigators that it had faithfully followed the PNP’s ...

A Maltese expert on human smuggling is hoping that the European Union’s limits on the export of inflatable boats to Libya, will make it harder for traffickers to send refugees and migrants to boats.

Inflatable rubber boats being used by Libya’s people-smugglers are being imported from China and being transhipped to Libya through Malta and Turkey, according to an EU classified document leaked by ...

MADRID (AP) — The hottest commodity in the saga of migrants risking death to reach European shores: decrepit wooden fishing boats. And Italy is asking the United States to supply drones that can ...

South Korea has deployed a large stationary floating platform in a disputed section of the Yellow Sea, escalating tensions with China over a contested maritime zone where both countries' exclusive ...

When Abid Ali risked his life in a rubber dinghy in 2015 as he fled Pakistan for Europe, he didn't think that three years later he would be making bags, backpacks and sneakers out of similar boats in ...

Up to 40 migrants are reported to have drowned after a rubber boat they were traveling on appeared to lose air. Almost 200 other fellow migrants who witnessed the tragedy have arrived in Italy.

Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional), under the supervision of the Arrecife Investigating Court number 3 and supported by Europol, dismantled an organized criminal group smuggling migrants from ...

Members of a search and rescue team help elementary students get across the Cimanuk River with a rubber boat in Garut, West Java, Indonesia, on July 22, 2022. Floods and overflows have damaged a ...

Dozens of migrants squeezed into three boats to float from France to Britain through English Channel. Migrants left a beach in Gravelines in northern France in a rubber boat on September 27. Dozens ...

The Vadodara fire brigade will get six new inflatable rubber boats for operations during floods and other emergency situations. Also, the department had to deploy these boats at various ponds in the ...