Canaries migrant surge tops 1,300
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More than 1,300 illegal  immigrants from Africa land in Spain's Canary Islands over the weekend.
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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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GENERAL NAKAR, Philippines  - Philippine troops  rushed food and drinking water by foot and helicopters on  Sunday to areas cut off by four storms that left more than  1,300 people dead or missing as residents scrambled to flee the  region.
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Efforts made by provincial government to evacuate almost 1 million people before Typhoon Aere, the 18th of the year, landed in Fujian Province paid off.
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Spain's Canary Islands, which last week declared a state of alert as swarms of locusts arrived from western Africa, is under threat from a renewed cloud of the creatures, an AFP photographer on the spot said.
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REAL, Philippines -- More than 1,000 people were dead or missing after flash floods and mudslides struck three Philippine coastal towns, a military spokesman said.
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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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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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Mexican police find 289 illegal migrants from Latin American, 226 of them hidden inside a single lorry, officials say.
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Scores of exhausted residents crowded onto ferries yesterday to escape villages ravaged by flash floods and landslides and to search for food and medicines after back-to-back storms left more than 1,100 people either dead or missing.
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MADRID, May 15 (IPS) - A new wave of African immigrants has left a number  of victims behind on the route to Spain's  Canary Islands,  where 1,300 undocumented immigrants have arrived in the last five  days.
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Eighteen Pakistani immigrants were taken off a boat carrying more than 200 people and carried ashore in a lifeboat at this port south of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, an AFP journalist witnessed.
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The number of legal immigrants in Spain at the end of last September reached over 1,8 million, that is 12,1% above last January and with Latin-Americans as the most numerous community according to a report from ...
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Spain and Senegal resume the repatriation of Senegalese illegal migrants from the Canary Islands, officials say.
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The 2006 census, released over the summer, shows a rapid rise in immigration in the past decade.
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Police caught nearly 1,200 people trying to reach the Canary Islands in overcrowded boats that left from the west African nation of Mauritania, setting a record for a weekend, officials said Sunday.
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A new wave of immigration is driving the US population's march to 300 million.