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• Italy curbs anti-immigration measures in face of attacks

  - 2008-05-19

  ROME AFP — Silvio Berlusconi's new Italian government has sought to deflect criticism over its hardline stance on immigrant illegality ahead of new rules being announced on Wednesday. The plans have brought a fiery attack from Spain, triggering a war of words between Rome and Madrid, but also worried...

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• Romanian 'Pavarotti' wins Spanish TV music contest

  - 2008-03-13

  MADRID AFP — A bricklayer dubbed "Romania's Pavarotti" has secured a record contract with Sony after winning a Spanish television music competition for immigrants modelled after "Pop Idol" and "Star Academy". Costel Busuioc, 33, wrapped himself in the white and blue Cuban flag of his two closest rivals after...

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• Over 50 African migrants feared dead in Atlantic

  - 2007-10-25

  MADRID AFP — 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. "It was a Dantesque scene," said Jose Maria Abreu, the...

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• 50 immigrants feared drowned off Canaries as vessel capsizes

  - 2007-07-19

  SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain AFP — The first survivors of a drama off the Canary Islands were brought to safety late Thursday after their boat capsized leaving 50 people missing, feared drowned. A rescue ship brought in 36 survivors, would-be African immigrants fished from the sea after their...

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• Thousands of Britons leave country for Australia, Spain, France

  - 2007-04-20

  LONDON AFP — Around 500 Britons a day are leaving the country, with Australia, Spain and France the most popular destinations, although far more new immigrants are arriving, official figures showed Friday. The most recent statistics show that 380,000 people emigrated from Britain for a year or more, of...

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• As some Africans leave Canaries, first Asians arrive

  - 2006-09-15

  SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain AFP — No sooner had Spain repatriated a group of African immigrants than overwhelmed Canary Islanders had to deal with more illegal migrants in the shape of 200 Pakistanis and Sri Lankans -- the first to arrive from Asia. But barely had they arrived than...

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• Asian immigrants await expulsion on Canary Islands

  - 2006-09-15

  SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain AFP — Two hundred Pakistanis and Sri Lankans, the first people from Asia to reach the Canary Islands among a flood of recent immigrants, face expulsion from the island of Tenerife as Spain insists they must go home. Local authorities were processing the group after...

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• Rising immigration tide fuels Spanish discontent

  - 2006-09-06

  MADRID AFP — A new 24-hour record tally of 900 illegal migrants reached the Canary Islands, fuelling growing public discontent, as ministers met a visiting European Commissioner to discuss how to stem the immigrant tide. Rescue authorities said they had intercepted nine boats off the Spanish archipelago on Tuesday and...

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• More than 200 exhausted migrants reach Canaries

  - 2006-07-30

  TENERIFE, Spain AFP — More than 200 exhausted migrants, including a child, reached Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands in three makeshift boats, rescue services said, pushing the number of arrivals this year towards the 13,000 mark. A witness at the scene who saw one of the vessels arrive said...

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• Europeans, Africans tackle clandestine immigration problem

  - 2006-07-09

  RABAT AFP — Ministers from 57 European and African countries gathered here for a major conference to seek ways to curb the growing problem of mass immigration to Europe, partly by improving conditions in their homeland. Foreign and interior ministers of 27 African and 30 European states hope both...

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