Canaries' migrant surge tops 1000
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More than 1,000 illegal  immigrants from Africa land in  Spain's Canary Islands so far this weekend.
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Almost 200 migrants believed to be from Pakistan and Sri Lanka reach the Canary Islands by boat.
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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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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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ROME - A boatload of 241 migrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday in the latest in a series of such landings there in the last few days.
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This was another huge weekend for Africans in the Canaries. More than 7,000 illegal immigrants from Africa clambered ashore these islands last year, mostly on Fuerteventura which is the closest of them to the ...
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PORT OF SPAIN : Up to 10 people were killed on islands of Grenada and Tobago as powerful Hurricane Ivan pummeled the Caribbean, officials said.
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About 300 African migrants travel to the Canary Islands by boat, bringing the number of recent arrivals to 600.
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Spanish police arrested 10 people in an operation against &quot;Islamic terrorism&quot; on Wednesday, a court source said. Most of those detained in the northeastern city of Barcelona were of Pakistani
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A state of alert is ordered as swarms of locusts from Africa arrive in Spain's Canary Islands.
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An estimated 100 million locusts swarmed one of the Canary Islands Tuesday, but the crop-ravaging insects &#151; many with only a week to live &#151; posed little threat, arriving with missing wings and broken legs after their 60-mile flight from the African mainland.
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Up to 1 million are expected to cast ballots in the most extensive expatriate vote ever organized.
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More than 100,000 households consist of people stuck in temporary accommodation, MPs say.
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Nearly 1000 people are dead or missing after a storm triggered landslides and floods in the Philippines this week, rescuers said on Thursday as a new and even more powerful deadly typhoon approached the main island of Luzon.
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Spanish authorities rescued more than  200 would-be migrants on Saturday from a decrepit fishing boat  found drifting off the Canary Islands, officials said.
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LOS CABOS, Mexico  - Luxury hotels sent foreign   tourists home as powerful Hurricane John took aim at Mexico's   Baja California peninsula on Thursday, and the government   ordered 10,000 local residents into shelters.
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LOS CABOS, Mexico  - At least 10,000 Mexicans will   be evacuated from their homes as Hurricane John headed for the   Baja California peninsula on Thursday and authorities have told   tourists to hole up in their hotels.