African migrants die in Atlantic
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At least 47 African migrants die of hunger and thirst after their boats drift into Mauritanian waters.
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At least 15 migrants drowned in the waters off the Italian coast in two separate incidents, including the disintegration of a boat that spilled more than 100 passengers into rough seas, reports said Sunday.
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Egyptian guards at the breached border with Gaza fatally shot an African man and woman Wednesday as they tried to illegally cross from Egypt into the Palestinian territory, officials said.
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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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ROME Huge numbers of migrants from Africa have showed up in rickety boats on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa in the last few days, and the government is responding quickly and contentiously, sending most of them back to Libya, almost immediately, by
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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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The wave of illegal African immigration to Spain's Canary Islands continued into 2008 as three boats carrying 126 migrants arrived Tuesday on the archipelago off the coast of Morocco, officials 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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"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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Almost 900 African migrants reached the Canary Islands on Tuesday, a record number for a single day.
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Hopes of finding about 50 migrants missing after their boat capsized in rough seas off Africa dimmed Friday as Spanish rescuers resumed a major air and sea search, authorities said.
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At least 10 people were killed and some 40 were missing after a boat crammed with African illegal immigrants sank off southern Italy, sparking a search for survivors.
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NEW YORK  - People living along the southern Atlantic coast of the US, as well as those residing along the Mississippi River, die at a faster rate than the national average, while death rates are below the norm in the upper Great Plains, a new study shows.
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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.
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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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Industrial boats from Europe and elsewhere have caused major fish populations to collapse in northwest Africaâs ocean floor, crippling coastal economies, and creating a surge of illegal migrants hoping to reach Europe.