Thirteen Africans die in bid to reach Spain
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Rescuers said they found 13 dead aboard a drifting immigrant boat carrying 43 Africans on a desperate attempt to reach Spanish territory.
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A boat with 13 dead Africans onboard was found Thursday by the Spanish Civil Guard near the Island of Fuerteventura, said a source from the maritime emergency service.
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The Spanish football federation has been hit with a $A113,000 fine by world governing body FIFA to sanction the racist abuse suffered by England&#39;s black players in two recent friendly matches.
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TUNIS, Oct 9  The death toll from the sinking of a boat carrying North African migrants across the Mediterranean has risen to 53, with 11 passengers still missing, Tunisian government officials said ...
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The Spanish government has begun airing emotional television adverts across West Africa as part of its attempts to combat illegal immigration. The $1.4m media campaign is to run for six weeks and has begun in Senegal. The aim of the campaign is to discourage potential migrants from attempting the dangerous 12-day voyage by boat to the Canary Islands. "My son left ... and we haven't heard from him in eight months," a distraught Senegalese woman says in one advert.  It then cuts to a boy lying face down on the rocks, apparently drowned.  In the past two years Spain has signed co-operation and repatriation agreements with Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea, Mali and Ghana.
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The bodies of 13 Polish miners are found, bringing the death toll from Tuesday's blast to 21, with two missing.
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For five years, Paul James hitched,  trekked and drove to get away from his native West Africa. He  survived the Sahara, begged on the streets of Morocco and  crossed the Mediterranean in a rubber dinghy to reach what he  thought was the promised land.
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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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At least 13 people are killed and scores more missing in landslides on the Indonesian island of Flores, officials say.
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SAIDIA, Morocco  - Ecologists say a tragedy is unfolding in north Africa where construction firms are moving in on some of the last unspoilt stretches of Mediterranean coastline in the search for profits.
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At least 47 African migrants die of hunger and thirst after their boats drift into Mauritanian waters.
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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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At least 56 African migrants died this month trying to make the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
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Dozens are feared to have drowned while trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands from Senegal in a boat.
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MADRID, Sept. 3 -- Police caught nearly 1,200 people trying to reach the Canary Islands in overcrowded boats that set out from the West African country of Mauritania, setting a record for a weekend, officials said Sunday.
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The Spanish coast guard intercepted a drifting boat of would-be immigrants from Africa on Thursday and found 30 dehydrated survivors standing atop 13 bodies in what emergency service officials described as a scene of "horror."
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Spain's ambassador to Nigeria is to give evidence to MPs over the death last month of a migrant being deported.