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Spanish Prime Minister Tours West Africa To Address Migration Crisis

Spain's Prime Minister visits West Africa to tackle rising migrant arrivals in the Canary Islands, focusing on bilateral agreements, combating human traffi...

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Spain's leader begins West Africa tour in Mauritania to tackle irregular migration to Canary Islands

Spain’s prime minister has embarked on a three-day tour of West Africa as the European nation struggled to contain the number of people making the dangerous Atlantic voyage by boat to the Canary Islands

The Independent UK

Spanish PM to visit Mauritania, Senegal to address migration surge

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez begins a three-day visit to Mauritania, Gambia and Senegal Tuesday as part of his focus on curbing migration to the Canary Islands, which have seen a surge of arrivals from West Africa this year.

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Spain's prime minister visits Canary Islands to discuss irregular migration and unaccompanied minors

Spain’s leader has met with the regional president of the Canary Islands to discuss irregular migration as the archipelago struggles to care for thousands of unaccompanied minors who made it there

The Independent UK

Science and music festival Starmus 2025 will return to the Canary Islands

Starmus 2025 will be held on the island of La Palma in April 2025. The festival will focus on the challenges of space debris and how light pollution is impacting our view of the night sky.

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Trump Suddenly Loves Immigration

Plus: Catholic hospitals may be forced to provide euthanasia, Milei's accomplishments in Argentina, migrant crisis near the Canary Islands, and more...

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Cruise ship rescues 68 people from wooden boat drifting in Atlantic Ocean

A CRUISE ship has rescued 68 migrants and found five bodies in a wooden boat that was drifting off the Canary Islands ...

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Cruise Ship Rescues Migrants And Recovers Bodies In Atlantic

Learn about the recent maritime rescue operation off the Canary Islands highlighting the risks faced by migrants crossing the Atlantic to Europe.

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Canary Islands tourism protests: what are they about?

Nearly 14 million tourists visited the Canary Islands in 2023

Evening Standard

Mass Protests In Canary Islands Decry Overtourism

Tens of thousands of demonstrators hit the streets across Spain's Canary Islands on Saturday to demand changes to the model of mass tourism they say is overwhelming the Atlantic archipelago.

International Business Times

Canary Islands 'welcomes' British holidaymakers despite anti-tourism protests

The tourism minister has urged Britons not to cancel their holidays

Evening Standard

Brits Can Get Charged Up To £2,563 If They Do This One Thing In Canary Islands

The Canary Islands have launched a crackdown on tourists who have been disrupting nature and stealing keepsakes from its shorelines.

International Business Times UK

Ex-Australian spy dies in Atlantic Ocean rowing race

A charity rowing expedition from the Canary Islands to Antigua has ended in tragedy with the death of a former Australian spy and war crimes investigator.

AAP

Former Australian spy Alisdair Putt dies during ‘World’s Toughest Row’ across the Atlantic

Race organisers say former war crimes investigator suffered a heart attack while skippering a boat from the Canary Islands to Antigua

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Migrant arrivals to Spain nearly doubled in 2023

The number of migrants arriving illegally in Spain soared by over 80 percent in 2023, with a record number landing in the Canary Islands, official figures showed Wednesday.

International Business Times

Migrant Arrivals In Spain Nearly Doubled In 2023

The number of migrants arriving illegally in Spain soared by over 80 percent in 2023, with a record number landing in the Canary Islands, official figures showed Wednesday.

The Independent UK

A Spanish official says spotter planes are helping curtail the number of West African migrant boats

A senior Spanish official says the deployment of two Spanish surveillance planes to watch for migrant boats heading on the treacherous route from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands has enabled authorities to stop 59 canoes from Senegal and Gambia

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The Canary Islands with Jane McDonald: release date, destinations, what happens and everything you need to know

Canary Islands with Jane McDonald sees the singer set off on an island-hopping adventure for Channel 5.

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The Independent UK

Why you should wait to book flights to the Canary Islands for winter 2024

The Man Who Pays His Way: Look to the future – but don’t necessarily act

Evening Standard

Spirit of Discovery: Saga Cruise ship passengers 'feared for their lives' as boat battered by massive waves in Bay of Biscay

The 14-day cruise to the Canary Islands was cut short by bad weather

The Guardian - UK

Record numbers of refugees arrive in Canary Islands by boat

Number of arrivals via world’s deadliest migration route approach 32,000 to break 17-year record

The Guardian - UK

Actor reporting on asylum seekers finds brother among arrivals in Canary Islands

Thimbo Samb, based in Madrid, was reunited with his older brother who had made boat journey from Senegal

The Conversation

Wildfires have wreaked havoc this summer – these plants were prepared

Summer 2023 has seen wildfire crews tirelessly battle forest fires worldwide. The Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the Moroccan coast, have faced their worst fires in 40 years, but amid the devastation lies a remarkable tale of resilience.

France 24

Thousands ordered to flee as heat, wind stoke fire on Spain’s Tenerife island

Thousands more residents of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands have fled their homes as a wildfire that authorities deemed “out of control” raged on for a fourth day.

The Independent UK

Thousands more evacuated as Tenerife fire rages on Spain's Canary Islands

Thousands more residents of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands have fled their homes as a wildfire that authorities deemed “out of control” raged on for a fourth day

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