Asian immigrants disembark in Canary Islands
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A boat carrying nearly 200 Asian immigrants arrived off this port south of Tenerife in the Canary Islands and the first of them were taken off in a lifeboat.
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Around 400 illegal immigrants flocked onto the Italian island of Lampedusa, bringing to more than 800 the number of boat-people landing on the tiny Mediterranean outpost in a 24-hour period, a coastguard official said.
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Spain says it has intercepted boats taking almost 250 presumed African migrants to the Canary Islands.
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Spanish coastguard towed a boatload of 33 would-be immigrants from Ivory Coast and Gambia into a Canary Islands port after they called for assistance by mobile phone, emergency services said.
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ST. LOUIS, Senegal -- A fishing boat crowded with more than 100 African migrants capsized at least twice while sailing to Spain's Canary Islands, spilling passengers and leaving scores dead as survivors drifted for about 10 days without food or water, officials said yesterday .
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Twenty migrants drowned while trying to reach the Canary Islands, survivors of a boat sinking tell Spanish police.
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Hundreds of migrants from Africa in rickety boats have landed in the last few days on Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island, and the Italian government is responding quickly and contentiously, sending most of them ...
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A boatload of 59 dazed and exhausted African men arrived Tuesday in the Canary Islands, the latest wave in a constant flood of desperate migrants seeking a better life in Europe.
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Thousands of settlers on India's Andaman Islands are returning to the mainland after the tsunami.
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Up to 50 migrants were missing in seas south of the Canary Islands Thursday after their boat capsized, a Spanish Marine Rescue spokeswoman said.
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A new 24-hour record tally of 900 illegal migrants reached the Canary Islands, fuelling growing public discontent, as ministers met a visiting European Commissioner to discuss how to stem the immigrant tide.
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By Pascal Fletcher Dakar - Spain said on Wednesday it was restarting the repatriation of hundreds of illegal Senegalese migrants detained in the Spanish Canary Islands, a move which some have resisted with ...
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The Spanish authorities detain 176 illegal immigrants who tried to reach the Canary Islands by ship.
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"At the moment we have 10 dead north Africans and five who are alive... two have been taken to hospital"  Ten north African immigrants trying to enter Spain were killed when their boat capsized near the Canary Islands on Friday, the coastguard and emergency services said. via Independent Online
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At least 20 migrants drowned when their boat split while sailing from Africa to Spain's Canary Islands, survivors told police Thursday.Comment
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After decades of being waved through, Americans returning from Mexico are increasingly being checked and questioned like foreigners, leading to wait times of two hours or more.
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MADRID, Sep 24  (IPS) - In Spain, measures to both attract and deter  immigrants are being stepped up, depending on their country of  origin, and especially on their work experience and professional  qualifications.