Fifty migrants lost off Canaries
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About 50 African migrants are missing off the Canary Islands after their boat sank, survivors say.
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MADRID -- Spanish rescue services were searching the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands yesterday for about 50 African migrants who were feared to have drowned after their rickety boat capsized during a dramatic attempt to save them in rough seas.
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As hundreds of migrants lose their lives trying to cross the sea from Africa to Europe, Panorama discovers a mafia link behind the people traffickers.
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Rescuers have found the bodies of seven African migrants in a boat adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, while almost 50 others are missing from the vessel trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands, Spanish authorities said Thursday.
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Boats carrying more than 400 migrants have been intercepted off Lampedusa over the past 48 hours, overwhelming the tiny island south of Sicily, local authorities said.
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About 200 African would-be immigrants are dead or missing after two boats they were travelling in sank off the coast of Yemen on the weekend, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said Tuesday.
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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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Spain says it has intercepted boats taking almost 250 presumed African migrants to the Canary Islands.
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Flooding in Haiti kills at least 50 in the wake of tropical storm Jeanne, with others missing.
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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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"The Islamic State of Iraq is the latest effort by al-Qaida to market itself and its goal of imposing a Taliban-like state on the Iraqi people"  Spain says 50 migrants missing in sinking MADRID, July 19 The Spanish coast guard reported rescuing 48 African migrants Thursday who said about 50 others went missing when their boat capsized off the Canary ... via Earth Times
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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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Floods in Mozambique have killed about 50 people and displaced tens of thousands in the southern African nation, a UN humanitarian agency said Sunday.
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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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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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More than half a million Jamaicans fled their homes today as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the island with 150 mph winds. It left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and the death toll of 23 was expected to rise.
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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.