Dominican authority says 17 other refugees and migrants rescued from the boat heading for Puerto Rico, a US territory.

The small U.S. Customs and Border Protection plane took off on a recent morning from the northwestern Puerto Rican town of Aguadilla, the rows of homes against coastal forests and ...

Rescue crews found the group of 11 migrants — six men and five women — and saved them from the rock side of the uninhabited natural reserve of Monito Island in the Mona Passage.