MIGRATION-SPAIN:   'What Is Worse, the Risk or a Life Similar to Death?'
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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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Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, just 56 miles from El Aioun on the African coast, is now the EU's most important entry point for illegal immigrants, far outstripping the Straits of Gibraltar as the ...
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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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BARCELONA, Spain -- Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide but not nearly enough is being done to educate people about how they can lessen their vulnerability, experts said Tuesday.
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Determined to curb the influx of illegal migrants, Spain has gone on the offensive, pouring $1.4 million into media campaigns in Senegal aimed at highlighting the risks of dangerous sea journeys that have claimed countless lives
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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.
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Spain's Canary Islands can no longer cope with a huge influx of illegal migrants from Africa, officials say.
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Icy conditions are blamed for the deaths of 13 migrants aboard a boat headed for the Canary Islands in Spain.
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As an economic slowdown and the subprime mortgage crisis deepen across the United States, Hispanic immigrants are increasingly in danger of losing their jobs and their homes.
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MADRID, Sep 12 (IPS) - Immigrants who enter Spain illegally should know  that they will be deported "sooner or later," Deputy  Prime Minister MarÃ­a Teresa FernÃ¡ndez de la Vega warned on  Tuesday, although she defended last year's amnesty for  undocumented immigrants.
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Madrid fears extremist infiltration in its North African enclave, but the locals say Spain would be better off addressing their poverty and despair
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SAN FRANCISCO &#151; Jacqueline Coats' husband drowned after he dove into a fierce Pacific Ocean riptide to rescue two boys. Now the immigrant from Kenya might be forced to leave the United States because he died before filing her residency application.
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It would be a lot easier to enjoy your life if there weren't so many things trying to kill you every day. Shadowed by peril as we are, you would think we'd get pretty good at distinguishing the risks likeliest to do us in from the ones that are statistical long shots. But you would be wrong, and it's almost certainly something we can learn to do better.
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Spain is to pay out citizens who were forced to flee abroad as children during the 1930s civil war.
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Men and women who've ever dealt with unemployment may have a heightened risk of dying early, particularly from suicide and injuries, a Swedish study suggests.
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REYNOSA, Mexico  - Tougher security along the U.S.-Mexico border is forcing migrants to take more dangerous, remote routes to cross into the United States and pushing up the number of deaths in the desert.
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Morgan has made the perilous journey to the Canary Islands once before. He intends to try again, even though his life will be at risk.