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☆ Around 48 migrants missing, nine found dead, after boat sinks off Canary Islands
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Nine people, one of them a child, have been confirmed as dead after their boat sank in the early hours of Saturday morning, emergency and rescue services said. “After what happened yesterday and if the forecast for the arrival of the migrant boats happens, then it will be the biggest humanitarian crisis to happen to the Canary Islands in 30 years,” Candelaria Delgado of the Canary Islands government, told reporters on Sunday. Three of those rescued suffered from hypothermia and dehydration, rescue services said on Sunday. As hopes of finding more survivors diminished, police installed a morgue on El Hierro, authorities said. Three other boats reached the Canary Islands during the night, carrying 208 migrants.

Persons: El, Frontex, ” Candelaria Delgado Organizations: Spain Reuters — Patrol, Rescuers, Spanish coastguard, Reuters, Channel, Canary Locations: El Hierro, Spain, Africa, Canary, Spanish, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, West Africa, Turkey, Greece, Britain, Lanzarote

☆ Nine Rescued in Atlantic After Days on Wreckage of Migrant Boat
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Emma Bubola | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a migrant boat sank and about 50 of its passengers went missing in the Atlantic Ocean off northwestern Africa, nine survivors endured two days on the semi-submerged wreck before they were found, according to Spanish rescuers. The rescue happened on Monday near the coast of the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago and a destination along a migration route on which, experts say, many other shipwrecks are likely to have gone unreported. The rescue occurred after a merchant ship reported a sinking vessel 60 nautical miles south of El Hierro, an island in the far west Canaries, said Carmen Lorente Sánchez, a spokeswoman for the Spanish maritime safety and rescue organization. She said rescuers found nine people on board and took them to the island’s airport. The survivors later told the authorities that the shipwreck had occurred two days earlier and that around 60 people were on board when they departed from Senegal, Ms. Sanchez added.

Persons: Carmen Lorente Sánchez, Sanchez Locations: Africa, Spanish, El Hierro, Senegal

☆ Pop art: Explaining it’s enduring appeal
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-18 | by ( Christian House | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —As accidental adverts for art shows go, a giant pooch made of flowers is a crowd pleaser. Outside the Guggenheim Bilbao in northern Spain, Jeff Koons’ much-loved flower 1992 sculpture “Puppy,” shows how Pop art — that high kick of counter-intuitive artistic expression so often equated with the 1960s — never really went away. The Pop baton has been handed over numerous times in art history. The Guggenheim Museum was pivotal to the development of the movement, both in terms of its fame and its art historical importance. The show features works by many American Pop art A-listers like Roy Lichtenstein (above).

Persons: Jeff Koons ’, —, Koons, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg —, Lauren Hinkson, ” Erika Ede, ”, Claes Oldenburg, Maurizio Cattelan, Pinocchio, Lucia Hierro, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Coosje van Bruggen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Erika Ede, Joan Young, “ Andy Warhol, “, Lucía Hierro, Hierro, Lucía Guzmán, –, “ I’ve, begonias, Pop Organizations: CNN, Guggenheim, Highland, Guggenheim Museum Locations: Spain, York, Manhattan, Bilbao, Dominican American, New York, Hierro

[1/5] Several volunteers give Spanish classes to migrants outside the Las Raices Camp in La Laguna, Spain, November 5, 2023. The mix-up shows just how overwhelmed the Spanish archipelago is, Canary Islands president Fernando Clavijo told Reuters, after a record 32,000 migrants came so far this year. At Tenerife's Las Raices adult migrants' centre in San Cristobal de La Laguna, Camara and his friend from the voyage, 16-year-old Modou Lamin Jarju from Gambia, sat around with dozens of other west Africans. Reuters GraphicsOne of the most strained of the eight Canary Islands is El Hierro, its population of 9,000 more than matched by the arrival of 11,000 migrants this year. At its largest minors' centre on a recent day, some 300 children ate breakfast on a basketball court before Spanish lessons.

Persons: Borja Suarez, Moussa Camara, Camara, Classing, Fernando Clavijo, Fran Morenilla, Salaoum Colley, Amparo Morales, Clavijo, El Hierro, Corina Pons, Horaci Garcia, Charlie Devereux, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: REUTERS, CRISTOBAL, LA LAGUNA, Reuters, Reuters Graphics Reuters, Las, Amnesty, Canaries, San Cristobal de La Laguna, Camara, Thomson Locations: La Laguna, Spain, Guinea, Europe, Islands, Spanish, Almeria, Canary, San Cristobal de La, Jarju, Gambia, El Hierro, European Union, Africa, Senegal

☆ Migrants Reaching Spain's Canary Islands Near 32,000 This Year
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Nov. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

MADRID (Reuters) - Nearly 32,000 migrants have reached Spain's Canary Islands on fragile boats from west Africa this year, passing a previous record posted in 2006, regional authorities said on Sunday. So far this year, 31,933 people have reached the islands, compared with the 2006 small boats crisis when 31,678 people made it to the Canaries, regional authorities told Reuters. Fernando Clavijo, the Canary Islands regional chief, said the figures showed the scale of the humanitarian crisis faced by the islands and called for more help from the Spanish government and the European Union. Its seven islands have become the main destination for migrants from Senegal and other African countries trying to reach Spain, fleeing conflict or seeking a better life. The Spanish government said it would create additional emergency accommodation for some 3,000 migrants in military barracks, hotels and hostels.

Persons: Fernando Clavijo, Graham Keeley, Giles Elgood Organizations: Canaries, Reuters, Spanish coastguard, Spanish Civil Guard, Canary, European Union, State Locations: MADRID, Africa, El Hierro, EU, Africa's, Senegal, Spain

☆ Migrants reaching Spain's Canary Islands near 32,000 this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Rescue workers search for bodies after a boat with 46 migrants from the Maghreb region capsized in the beach of Orzola, in the Canary Island of Lanzarote, Spain June 18, 2021. REUTERS/Borja Suarez/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsMADRID, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Nearly 32,000 migrants have reached Spain's Canary Islands on fragile boats from west Africa this year, passing a previous record posted in 2006, regional authorities said on Sunday. Fernando Clavijo, the Canary Islands regional chief, said the figures showed the scale of the humanitarian crisis faced by the islands and called for more help from the Spanish government and the European Union. Its seven islands have become the main destination for migrants from Senegal and other African countries trying to reach Spain, fleeing conflict or seeking a better life. The Spanish government said it would create additional emergency accommodation for some 3,000 migrants in military barracks, hotels and hostels.

Persons: Borja Suarez, Fernando Clavijo, Graham Keeley, Giles Elgood Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Canaries, Reuters, Spanish coastguard, Spanish Civil Guard, Canary, European Union, State, Thomson Locations: Maghreb, Orzola, Lanzarote, Spain, Rights MADRID, Africa, El Hierro, EU, Africa's, Senegal

☆ Over One Thousand Migrants Reach Spain's Canary Islands in Single Day
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

ARGUINEGUIN, GRAN CANARIA (Reuters) - Over 1,000 migrants arrived in Spain's Canary Islands in a single day on Saturday after making the dangerous journey from Africa, including on a boat carrying 320 people that rescuers said was the most packed vessel they had ever seen. The Red Cross, which was helping to treat the migrants, said a wooden boat that arrived on the island of El Hierro marked a record number of arrivals in a single boat. The previous record was a boat carrying 271 people that arrived in El Hierro on Oct. 3. Saturday's arrivals included 783 in El Hierro, 98 in Tenerife and 150 in Gran Canaria, the Red Cross said. In Gran Canaria, the coast guard towed a wooden boat carrying migrants, including a toddler, into the port of Arguineguin.

Persons: Borja Suarez, Jessica Jones, Toby Chopra Organizations: GRAN CANARIA, Reuters, Gran Canaria, Borders Locations: GRAN, Canary, Africa, El Hierro, Tenerife, Gran, Arguineguin, Spain, Senegal

☆ Over one thousand migrants reach Spain's Canary Islands in single day
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/6] Rescuers disembark a migrant baby from a Spanish coast guard vessel, in the port of Arguineguin, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, October 21, 2023. The Red Cross, which was helping to treat the migrants, said a wooden boat that arrived on the island of El Hierro marked a record number of arrivals in a single boat. The previous record was a boat carrying 271 people that arrived in El Hierro on Oct. 3. Saturday's arrivals included 783 in El Hierro, 98 in Tenerife and 150 in Gran Canaria, the Red Cross said. In Gran Canaria, the coast guard towed a wooden boat carrying migrants, including a toddler, into the port of Arguineguin.

Persons: Borja Suarez, Jessica Jones, Toby Chopra Organizations: Gran Canaria, REUTERS, GRAN CANARIA, Borders, Thomson Locations: Spanish, Arguineguin, Gran, Spain, GRAN, Canary, Africa, El Hierro, Tenerife, Senegal

☆ Spain rescues 262 migrants off Canary Islands
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A view of a wooden boat that migrants used, to reach the Canary Islands, at the port of Arguineguin, in the island of Gran Canaria, Spain April 20, 2023. Emergency services said they had brought 103 of the 262 rescued migrants to El Hierro, the westernmost and tiniest of the Canary Islands, which has received more than 1,200 migrants in the last six days alone. "We have even reinforced with volunteer personnel from other islands that perhaps are not suffering the pressure El Hierro is suffering at the moment." The other rescued migrants were taken to Los Cristianos port in Tenerife and Arguineguin in Gran Canaria. The seven islands of the Atlantic archipelago have become the main destination for migrants trying to reach Spain.

Persons: Borja Suarez, Inigo Vila, Vila, El Hierro, Fernando Clavijo, Emma Pinedo, Andrei Khalip, Gareth Jones, Nick Macfie Organizations: Gran Canaria, REUTERS, Rights, European Union, Thomson Locations: Arguineguin, Gran, Spain, Rights MADRID, Spanish, Italy, Atlantic, Madrid, El Hierro, Islands, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Saharan Africa

Italy is even going outside the EU to establish links with the United Kingdom to crack down on unwanted arrivals. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was blunt about how far Europe's leaders still are from reaching a consensus before they met in Granada, Spain. Orbán, who has pushed back against EU policy repeatedly and taken a hard-line approach against migration, said that he won't sign off on any deal at any point in the foreseeable future. He went as far as to compare the situation to being “legally raped” by Hungary's fellow EU members. “The agreement on migration, politically, it’s impossible — not today (or) generally speaking for the next years," Orbán said.

Persons: Viktor Orbán, Orbán, “, Mateusz Morawiecki, Ursula von der Leyen, ”, Roberta Metsola, ” Metsolas, Giorgia, Rishi Sunak, ___ Wilson, Raf Casert, Ciarán Giles, Colleen Barry, Vanessa Gera, Danica Kirka Organizations: European Union, EU, International Organization for Migration, Giorgia Meloni, della, The Times Locations: GRANADA, Spain, Brussels, Hungary, Poland, Italy, United Kingdom, Granada, Syria, Turkey, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Malta, Greece, Cyprus, Ukraine, Lampedusa, London, Africa, El Hierro, Senegal, Barcelona, Madrid, Milan, Warsaw

☆ Flights cancelled as storm Hermine hits Spain's Canary Islands
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A broken tree lies on a street following a storm in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain in this picture obtained from social media. CECOPALSC/Handout via REUTERSRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterMADRID, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Flights were cancelled across Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday, airport operator Aena said, as storm Hermine moved in from over the Atlantic, bringing heavy rains to the popular holiday destination. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe regional government has closed schools on Monday as a precaution. Hermine had been expected to strike the Canary Islands as a tropical storm but was downgraded on Sunday to a tropical depression by the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Jessica Jones Editing by Peter GraffOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Cine va fi noul căpitan al lui Real Madrid în locul lui Sergio Ramos? Va fi întreruptă o tradiție veche din 1904!
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-18 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: Getty ImagesCine va fi noul căpitan al lui Real Madrid în locul lui Sergio Ramos? Sergio Ramos se desparte de Real Madrid după 16 ani, iar gruparea blanco trebuie să-și aleagă un nou căpitan de echipă. În fine, ultimul stranier care a purtat banderola de căpitan a fost Federico Revolver din Guatemala în 1904. Asta deși, cel mai probabil, Benzema va juca mai mult și va fi cel care va purta banderola în lipsa brazilianului. Sergio Ramos a fost căpitan timp de 6 ani și a cucerit 12 trofee, în timp ce Iker Casillas se laudă cu 7 trofee ridicate în brațe timp de 5 sezoane.

Persons: Sergio Ramos ?, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo, Karim Benzema, Raphael Varane, !, Arthur Johnson, Jose Giralt, Federico Revolver, Santiago Bernabeu, Ramos, Jose Mourinho, Raul, Fernando Hierro ., Nacho Organizations: Real Madrid, madrilen, Real Locations: Cuba, spaniolă, Guatemala

☆ O ambarcațiune cu 24 de cadavre la bord, găsită în apropierea uneia din Insulele Canare
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-29 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

O ambarcaţiune găsită în derivă marţi, în apropierea coastelor uneia din Insulele Canare cu cadavrele a 24 de migranţi la bord, a ajuns miercuri pe Insula Tenerife, au indicat surse oficiale, raportând un bilanţ nou, transmite AFP, citat de agerpres.ro. O navă de salvare spaniolă a remorcat barca în portul Los Cristianos, unde o aşteptau serviciile de prim-ajutor. Numărătoarea efectuată odată cu sosirea bărcii în port a ridicat numărul morţilor la 24, printre care doi minori. Un elicopter militar a ridicat apoi trei persoane încă în viaţă la bord (doi bărbaţi şi o femeie) transportându-i la un spital din Tenerife. Cel puţin 1.851 de persoane şi-au pierdut viaţa anul trecut în încercări de a ajunge pe Insulele Canare, potrivit ONG-ului Caminando Fronteras, care monitorizează aceste migraţii.

Persons: Domingo Martin, Juan Carlos Serrano Organizations: Tenerife, Ministerului, Interne Locations: Insulele Canare, Los Cristianos, spaniolă, Insula, Hierro, Tenerife, Africa Subsahariană, Sosirile, Canare, Europei

☆ 24 de migranți au murit într-o barcă în timp ce încercau să ajungă în insulele Canare
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-29 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: wikipedia.org24 de migranți au murit într-o barcă în timp ce încercau să ajungă în insulele CanareO ambarcaţiune cu cadavrele a 24 de migranţi la bord a ajuns ieri pe Insula Tenerife, au indicat surse oficiale, transmite AFP. O navă de salvare spaniolă a remorcat barca în portul Los Cristianos, unde o aşteptau serviciile de intervenție. „Pompierii scot cadavrele, care vor fi transportate într-o capelă", a indicat Domingo Martin de la Crucea Roşie spaniolă. Serviciile de salvare maritimă raportaseră iniţial un bilanţ cu 17 morţi, dar numărătoarea efectuată odată cu sosirea bărcii în port a ridicat numărul morţilor la 24. Printre aceștia erau și doi copii.

Persons: Domingo Martin, Juan Carlos Serrano Organizations: Tenerife, Agerpres, Ministerului, Interne Locations: Canare, Los Cristianos, spaniolă, Insula, Hierro, Tenerife, Africa Subsahariană, Sosirile, Europei, Insulele Canare

☆ Spania: 17 migranţi africani găsiţi morţi pe o barcă în largul insulelor Canare
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-27 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Barca a fost reperată la aproximativ 500 km sud-est de insula El Hierro, cea mai mică din arhipelag, iar un elicopter s-a deplasat pentru a-i evacua pe cei trei supravieţuitori. "Cei trei bărbaţi sufereau de hipotermie, dar erau în stare bună" şi au fost transportaţi la spitalul din El Hierro, a declarat pentru AFP o purtătoare de cuvânt a serviciilor spaniole de salvare maritimă.La începutul acestei luni, patru persoane au fost găsite moarte la sud de El Hierro, într-o barcă ce transporta 23 de migranţi.Traversarea Atlanticului dinspre coasta marocană spre insule este de aproximativ 1000 de kilometri, un traseu periculos din cauza curenţilor puternici, iar ambarcaţiunile sunt, în general, supraîncărcate şi în stare proastă.Sosirile migranţilor în insulele Canare s-au înmulţit ca urmare a creşterii numărului de patrule pe coasta de sud a Europei, ceea ce a contribuit la o reducere semnificativă a traversărilor în Marea Mediterană.În total, 3.400 de persoane au ajuns în insulele Canare între 1 ianuarie şi 31 martie anul acesta, comparativ cu mai puţin de jumătate în aceeaşi perioadă a anului trecut.Asociaţiile pentru apărarea drepturilor omului evidenţiază faptul că pandemia de COVID-19 a determinat creşterea numărului celor care decid să ajungă în Europa, în condiţiile pierderii locurilor de muncă şi a mijloacelor de trai pe continentul african.

Locations: Hierro, El, Atlanticului, Canare, Europei, Europa

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