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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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - The hijacking of an Air Mauritania plane ended in the Spanish Canary Islands on Thursday, a Spanish government official told RNE national radio.
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Politics: 18 September 2004, Saturday. Spanish police has arrested dozens of people suspected to have established and acted in a criminal group dealing with robberies and women trafficking.
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Spain approved new guidelines on immigration on Thursday, including a partial amnesty aimed at giving papers to some of the 800,000 illegal immigrants estimated to be living in the country.
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The police inquiry into Madeleine McCann's disappearance is almost over, Portugal's justice minister says.
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A Spanish judge probing genocide over 36 years of civil war that left some 200,000 people dead or "disappeared" in Guatemala shelved his quest Wednesday, a court official told AFP.
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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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A body found on a Spanish island has been confirmed as that of a Welsh tourist who went missing eight weeks ago, the Foreign Office has confirmed.
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Spain says it will not put up with the influx of African migrants after more than 1,400 arrives in the Canaries at the weekend.
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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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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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MADRID, May 15 (IPS) - A new wave of African immigrants has left a number  of victims behind on the route to Spain's  Canary Islands,  where 1,300 undocumented immigrants have arrived in the last five  days.
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Iraqi and British forces in southern Iraq closed border crossings with Iran on Thursday in an attempt to choke off smuggling networks that Washington says are used to supply militant groups.
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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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The commission probing the Madrid train bombings ends its hearings amid political disagreements.
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FLORENCE: Interior ministers from France and Spain on Monday shot down a German proposal to set up transit camps in North Africa to process asylum seekers before they reach Europe.
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The last detainees leave a camp on Nauru, ending Australia's "Pacific Solution" immigration policy.