More than 600 migrants were rescued overnight and early Friday from two wooden fishing boats found sailing miles (kilometers) from the southernmost part of Greece, the country's coast guard said.

The seal population has increased from about 4,000, considered nearly extinct, in the late 1980s to about 50,000.

It said it was being taken to a beach near the Swedish fishing village of Kåseberga. A rescue worker seen during the rescue operation after two cargo ships collided on the Baltic Sea December 13 ...