Nineteen bodies were recovered off the Tunisian coast, a common departure point for migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, the coast guard reported.
The bodies were found near Mahdia and Sfax, Tunisia's second-largest city, where recent tensions between migrants and police have escalated.
This year, over 49,000 individuals have reached Europe by sea, with more than 7,000 traveling from Tunisia to Italy.
Thousands more have been stopped by North African forces, and the UN's International Organisation for Migration estimates 473 are dead or missing.
Tunisians protested on Tuesday in the capital on the 14th anniversary of the uprising that sparked the Arab Spring revolts
An offshore oil platform that was being towed from Scotland to Turkey has run aground near a beach off Tunisia&
According to reports by French radio and RFI, an imminent transfer of the French fighter jet to Morocco from the
Earlier this week Algeria accused France of "unacceptable and blatant interference" after President Emmanuel Macron said Algiers was
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