In 2019, Carola Rackete faced serious jail time. She had just rescued dozens of migrants in dire condition off the coast of Libya. Defying the Italian government, Rackete docked her ship in Lampedusa ...

FILE PHOTO: Carola Rackete, the 31-year-old Sea-Watch 3 captain, disembarks from a finance police boat, in Porto Empedocle FILE PHOTO: Carola Rackete, the 31-year-old Sea-Watch 3 captain, disembarks ...

The German captain of a ship that rescued 53 migrants off the coast of Libya was arrested and accused of trying to sink a police boat after reaching landfall in Italy. The vessel, named Sea-Watch 3, ...

ROME, June 28 (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors have put the German captain of a rescue ship under investigation for allegedly aiding people-smugglers, raising the stakes in a standoff that is ...

A lawyer says the captain of a migrant rescue ship intended no harm when she hit an Italian border police motorboat while trying to bring 40 migrants to port in Italy’s southern Lampedusa island ...

Carola Rackete took the decision to sail migrants into a blocked port. She was arrested soon after. The cramped rubber dinghy was drifting, directionless, with 53 migrants on board. The coast of Libya ...

DER SPIEGEL: Ms. Rackete, you have become a heroine to many because of the considerable risks you took to save people from the Mediterranean. Many others, however, are hostile to you. How do you see ...

The crew of the Sea-Watch 3 made their way towards the distressed dinghy and rescued those on board. At that point, the crew could have handed the migrants over to Libyan coastguards, but the ...

The cramped rubber dinghy was drifting, directionless, with 53 migrants on board. The coast of Libya, from which the boat had set out, was 47 miles to the south and the nearest part of Europe was out ...