African migrant boat in disaster

Spanish fishermen discovered a boat off of West Africa with one survivor, the bodies of seven dead migrants, and fifty others missing. According to the lone survivor, the boat was trying to reach Spain from Cape Verde. Thousands of Africans set sail for Spain’s Canary Islands each year, though the numbers are down sharply this

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Closing The Door To Immigrants

PARIS – The curtain falls on a bevy of near-naked dancers in feathered headdresses, and Adir Rafael Pires glides into action. As a set-changer at the Lido, the racy cabaret on Paris’ Champs-Elysees, Pires could not be farther from his desert birthplace: Cape Verde, a rocky, drought-stricken archipelago off West Africa’s coast. But the door

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