Migrants found off Canary Islands
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Spain's police intercept 227 people who tried to reach the Canary Islands from Africa on a decrepit vessel.
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Rescuers 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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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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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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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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Twenty migrants drowned while trying to reach the Canary Islands, survivors of a boat sinking tell Spanish police.
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A French-led marine expedition team believes it has discovered thousands of new species of mollusks and crustaceans around a Philippine island, officials and scientists announced Monday.
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Spain postpones the repatriation of about 100 illegal migrants to Senegal from the Canary Islands.
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An Air Mauritania passenger plane that was hijacked after it left the Mauritanian capital has landed in Spain's Canary Islands, according to Spanisn media reports.
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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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The bodies of 10 migrants from West Africa are found off the coast of Gran Canaria after their boat capsized.
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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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FUERTEVENTURA, Spain : Rescuers 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 ...
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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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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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"At the moment we have 10 dead north Africans and five who are alive... two have been taken to hospital"  Ten north African immigrants trying to enter Spain were killed when their boat capsized near the Canary Islands on Friday, the coastguard and emergency services said. via Independent Online
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A hijacked Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane has landed on Spain's Canary Islands after making a fuel stop in Western Sahara, officials in Mauritania said on Thursday.