Canaries in record migrant influx
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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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About 50 illegal Senegalese migrants are flown home from the Canary Islands, as Spain resums deportations.
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No sooner had Spain repatriated a group of African immigrants than overwhelmed Canary Islanders were dealing with more illegal migrants in the shape of 200 Pakistanis and Sri Lankans -- the first to arrive from Asia.
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MADRID, Sep 10  (IPS) - Four well-known Venezuelan folk musicians were  deported when they arrived to perform at Spainâs Canary Islands,  where the community reacted with anger and pointed out that the  South American country took in tens of thousands of Spaniards  during the 1939-1975 dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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Spanish authorities rescued more than 200 would-be migrants on Saturday from a decrepit fishing boat found drifting off the Canary Islands, 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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A worker with the Spanish Red Cross, British-born Austin Wainwright, describes the job of helping exhausted African migrants arriving in the Canary Islands.
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REYKJAVIK, Nov 22 (IPS) - Since May this year, there has been a huge influx  of foreigners to Iceland. That is quite  striking, considering  that only 20 years ago Iceland was considered almost ethnically  'pure'.
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After more than 250 migrants were intercepted trying to reach the Canary Islands in a 24-hour period, Spain's interior minister said Thursday that more European help is needed to stop the surge in illegal immigrants from Africa.
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The Spanish government has begun airing emotional television adverts across West Africa as part of its attempts to combat illegal immigration. The $1.4m media campaign is to run for six weeks and has begun in Senegal. The aim of the campaign is to discourage potential migrants from attempting the dangerous 12-day voyage by boat to the Canary Islands. "My son left ... and we haven't heard from him in eight months," a distraught Senegalese woman says in one advert.  It then cuts to a boy lying face down on the rocks, apparently drowned.  In the past two years Spain has signed co-operation and repatriation agreements with Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea, Mali and Ghana.
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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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From lager louts breaking their  noses in fights to pensioners tripping down stairs, thousands  of foreigners pouring to the coast in search of sun run up a  hefty public hospital bill for Spain.
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PADUA, Italy, Aug 27 (IPS) - Mid-August, a normal week in Lampedusa, a small  Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. In all, 439 illegal  migrants, including a 15-day old baby, arrived from North Africa  in old motorboats. The same week, 20 bodies were found off the  coast, victims of earlier shipwrecks.
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More than 1,000 illegal  immigrants from Africa land in  Spain's Canary Islands so far this weekend.
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World tourism broke all records in 2006 despite fears over terrorism, bird flu and rising oil prices, the United Nations tourism watchdog reported Monday. A total of 842 million international tourist arrivals were recorded last year, an increase of 4.5 percent, the Madrid-based World Tourism Organization said, citing preliminary data.
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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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L'imbarcazione sarebbe affondata al largo delle Canarie