Malaysia has called off its search for migrants missing after their boat capsized 11 days ago, with authorities recovering 36 bodies from the wreckage off the Thai-Malaysian coast.

Eighteen people lost their lives when a wooden vessel carrying dozens of irregular refugees capsized off the coast of Libya, while 64 others were rescued, according to the United Nations' migration agency.

Police forces from multiple countries have dismantled an international drug trafficking network that used high-speed "narco boats" to transport large amounts of cocaine from Brazil and Colombia to Spain's Canary Islands, Spanish authorities announced on Friday.

Six people died and 40 are missing after a migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as Italian authorities conducted a search for survivors off the island of Lampedusa.

On Tuesday, Samoa announced that it had detected and contained "small leakages" from a New Zealand navy vessel that wrecked on a reef while transporting nearly 1,000 tonnes of diesel.