Immigrant boat lands in Canary Islands
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A boatload of 59 dazed and exhausted African men arrived Tuesday in the Canary Islands, the latest wave in a constant flood of desperate migrants seeking a better life in Europe.
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ROME About 400 illegal immigrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa overnight, officials said Thursday, the latest in a wave of landings that has angered the government.
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At least 10 people were killed when a boat carrying around 100 would-be illegal immigrants sank early in the Mediterranean off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, local authorities said.
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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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About 50 African migrants are missing off the Canary Islands after their boat sank, survivors say.
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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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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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Rescuers on Thursday found 13 bodies and at least four people suffering from severe hypothermia in a boat that was towed to this island in Spain s Canary archipelago, emergency services officials said.
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About 50 Senegalese migrants are flown home from the Canary Islands, as Spain resumes deportations.
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Spanish coastguard towed a boatload of 33 would-be immigrants from Ivory Coast and Gambia into a Canary Islands port after they called for assistance by mobile phone, emergency services said.
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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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Rescuers scoured the seas off the Canary Islands Thursday for around 50 illegal immigrants who went missing after their vessel capsized as it was trying to reach the Spanish archipelago, emergency services said.
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A small boat packed with Africans trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands capsized Friday in rough seas, leaving one person dead and 32 missing, authorities said.
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Summer has brought an expected influx of boat people from north African shores to Italy&#39;s southernmost island of Lampedusa, but they are still overwhelming immigration facilities with their sheer numbers, officials say.
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By Erika Beras, The Miami Herald  Jan. 31--EIGHTEEN MIGRANTS -- 17 men and a woman -- were found this morning on Monument Island, within site of the Coast Guard station at Government Cut.   It was not clear how they had gotten there.
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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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Dozens are feared to have drowned while trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands from Senegal in a boat.