When the boat arrived local police set up a temporary processing center to conduct identity checks on the passengers. The Atlantic crossing is one of the deadliest in the world. While there is no ...

POLICE have said for the first time they believe “at least” 50 migrants were tortured and thrown overboard on a boat heading to the Canary Islands. The victims are feared to have been accused of ...

More than 2,000 African migrants were stranded in a dockside camp on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria on Tuesday after a wave of arrivals overwhelmed local authorities' capacity to house them.

In 1700, the United States of America as we know it today didn't exist, and neither did steam engines — but that didn't stop people from crossing to and from Europe and the Americas. Missionaries, ...

Spain will expand naval patrols around the Canary Islands and set up more migrant centres in response to a surge of arrivals from Africa, including more than 2,000 people last weekend, the regional ...

Cheikh Kane’s life reads like a Hollywood script: a harrowing ocean crossing from Senegal and ending up in the glamour of ...