More than 80 migrants are missing after a boat that departed a Libyan coastal town capsized in the central Mediterranean, according to the UN migration agency. At least two bodies have been recovered from the approximately 120 people on board.

The UN migration agency IOM announced that at least 606 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea this year, highlighting the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

The UN migration agency has issued a warning that escalating violence along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border is causing significant displacement, with nearly 66,000 Afghans already displaced.

The UN migration agency IOM reports that at least 606 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea so far this year.

The UN migration agency has reported that almost 8,000 people died or went missing along global migration routes last year, with a sharp rise in Mediterranean deaths early this year.