In a normal year, it would be high tourist season for the Canary Islands, but a huge influx of migrants instead teem the streets, finding their new home in the Spanish archipelago. With reception centres swamped and overrun after the arrival of more than 18,000 people this year — 10 times the number in 2019 […]
Four migrants, two children among them, died Tuesday after the boat in which they had set out from France to try and reach Britain capsized in the English Channel, French officials said. One man drowned when the boat sank, while a woman and two children aged five and eight died after they were pulled from […]
Last week, at the campaign’s closing debates, President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden took up their final stances, shelving the chaos that presided over their previous face-off in favour of a more substantive exchange that highlighted vastly different approaches to the major domestic and foreign challenges facing the nation. They fought over several […]
More than 1,000 migrants reached the Canary Islands in the past 48 hours, the Red Cross said on Saturday, the largest number since a 2006 crisis in the archipelago. Beefed-up security on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast is pushing traffickers and migrants south to risk the perilous crossing to the Canaries, located around 60 miles (97 km) […]
French rescuers plucked 88 migrants from the English Channel on Tuesday in five different operations off France’s northern coast from where they were trying to reach Britain, authorities said. The rescues again highlighted the strain placed on European countries trying to deal with an influx of asylum-seekers fleeing war and poverty at home. The European […]
