African migrants drown off Yemen
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A diplomat in Yemen says he believes 180 African migrants have drowned in recent days trying to get to Yemen.
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Eight people, including six Spanish tourists, were killed in Yemen yesterday in a suicide car bombing with all the hallmarks of an al-Qaida operation.
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Four sub-Saharan Africans trying to immigrate illegally drowned 20 feet from shore Saturday at the same Spanish beach where 33 would-be immigrants died last week, state radio said.
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Three Britons have drowned off the Algarve coast in Portugal, with three other people treated in hospital.
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The bodies of 24 people believed to be illegal migrants are washed ashore in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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Two Cubans in a boatload of people being smuggled to the United States drowned last week when their craft capsized off the island's coast, authorities said Thursday. Nine other passengers and two smugglers managed to swim to shore.
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At least 10 people were killed when a boat carrying around 100 would-be illegal immigrants sank early in the Mediterranean off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, local authorities said.
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Eight Dominican migrants died and 83 were  rescued on Friday when their overladen boat capsized in rough  seas off Puerto Rico, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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Two boats carrying would-be migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe sank Wednesday between Italy and Libya, leaving five people dead, including a child, Italian officials said. Eleven others were missing and presumed dead.
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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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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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About 50 African migrants are missing off the Canary Islands after their boat sank, survivors say.
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A boat carrying Haitian migrants caught fire off the coast of the Dominican Republic, leaving at least eight passengers dead and 44 missing, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said Thursday.
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A boat loaded with Somali and Ethiopian migrants capsized in the Gulf of Aden during a treacherous night crossing in which at least 112 people died, a Yemeni official said Friday.
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Thirteen people have perished on board a makeshift boat as they attempted a perilous voyage, in search of a new life. The victims were from Africa.
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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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Two people died and 14 are missing after a boat packed with Africans capsized today while trying to reach Spain - s Canary Islands, officials said.