Spain ends search for missing migrants
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Spain has called off the two-day search for some 50 African migrants whose crowded boat capsized in rough seas off the Canary Islands, officials said Saturday.
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MADRID, Oct 4  - Spain on Monday expressed further satisfaction at the arrests in France of 17 suspected Basque extremists, saying that the neighbouring country had made hunting down members of the underground ETA group a top priority.
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Australia's widely criticised "Pacific Solution" policy of holding asylum seekers on remote islands was due to end Friday with the departure of the last refugees from Nauru, the government said.
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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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Spain will pull its 500 troops out of Afghanistan after the Afghan elections, Defense Minister Jose Bono told local media on Monday.
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Spain says it will not put up with the influx of African migrants as 1,400 arrive in the Canaries in two days.
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Walk into Gibraltar airport and the departure gates offer just one destination: Britain. Stroll across the border into Spain and your cell phone dies.
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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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The deportation of illegal migrants from Spain to Senegal is suspended after complaints of mistreatment.
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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.Comment
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Mexican rescue workers gave up  their two-week search for two small Indian boys who became  trapped in a cave, possibly after their father sent them  searching for gold, officials said on Sunday.
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ST. LOUIS, Senegal -- A fishing boat crowded with more than 100 African migrants capsized at least twice while sailing to Spain's Canary Islands, spilling passengers and leaving scores dead as survivors drifted for about 10 days without food or water, officials said yesterday .
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Italian authorities surrendered the suspect to Spanish police, who were accompanying the suspect to Madrid Tuesday evening, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.
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France and Spain combined yesterday to derail plans to reduce migration into Europe by setting up EU asylum-processing camps in north Africa.
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MADRID, Oct 30  (IPS) - Authorities and civil society organisations in  Spain have roundly condemned an apparent case of trafficking of  children from Chad. But they defend the innocence of the seven  Spanish crew members of a plane chartered by the French charity  L'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark) to remove 103 children from  the country in north-central Africa.
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Up to 50 migrants were missing in seas south of the Canary Islands Thursday after their boat capsized, a Spanish Marine Rescue spokeswoman said.
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MADRID, Spain Spanish lawmakers have ended hearings into the Madrid train bombings and will now start compiling a final report.