Fifty migrants lost off Canaries
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About 50 African migrants are missing off the Canary Islands after their boat sank, survivors say.
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Security forces captured more than 200 Africans trying to reach Spanish shores in small boats Wednesday, as a government official denied that a new plan to give residency papers to many illegal immigrants was ...
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Boats carrying more than 400 migrants have been intercepted off Lampedusa over the past 48 hours, overwhelming the tiny island south of Sicily, local authorities said.
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The repatriation begins of hundreds of Asian migrants whose ship was stranded at sea off Mauritania.
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Rescuers have found the bodies of 13 Africans on a makeshift boat after a failed attempt to reach the Canary Islands, Spanish officials said.
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Fearing for the health of the tourist trade, locals in the Canary Islands want more to be done about migrants arriving by boat from Africa.
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Seventeen would-be immigrants drowned and 47 were missing after a boat that was to have carried them across the Mediterranean broke up and sank off the Tunisian coast at the weekend, the Tunisian navy and eyewitnesses revealed.
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By Erika Beras, The Miami Herald  Jan. 31--EIGHTEEN MIGRANTS -- 17 men and a woman -- were found this morning on Monument Island, within site of the Coast Guard station at Government Cut.   It was not clear how they had gotten there.
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By JONATHAN M. KATZ  SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - U.S. Coast Guard crews searched waters off the north coast of the Dominican Republic Friday for nearly 50 Haitian migrants missing since their homemade boat caught fire, an agency spokesman said.
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Floods in Mozambique have killed about 50 people and displaced tens of thousands in the southern African nation, a UN humanitarian agency said Sunday.
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There is a corner of the picturesque harbour at Lampedusa which is a graveyard - for the fishing boats aboard which so many migrants from North Africa have made perilous and overcrowded journeys.
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At least 56 African migrants died this month trying to make the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
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Port-u-Prince, Sept. 20 (NNN): More than 50 people in Haiti have died due to devastating floods in the wake of tropical storm Jeanne, which swept through the Caribbean in recent days.
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Rescuers said they found 13 dead aboard a drifting immigrant boat carrying 43 Africans on a desperate attempt to reach Spanish territory.
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About 50 illegal Senegalese migrants are flown home from the Canary Islands, as Spain resums deportations.
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Spanish rescuers call off the search for 50 African migrants missing after a boat capsized near the Canary Islands.
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More than half a million Jamaicans fled their homes today as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the island with 150 mph winds. It left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and the death toll of 23 was expected to rise.