Migrant fleeing Libya says ships ignored refugees’ cries for help as her pregnant sister died

VALLETTA, Malta — The 50-foot (15-meter) wooden boat drifted across the Mediterranean for five days without food and water after its engine died, unable to propel the 117 people crammed aboard from war in Libya to safety in Europe. More than once, boats passed within sight, a survivor told The Associated Press: a container ship, a fishing boat, then two big ships, including one that shone a ...