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Protests occur in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, against mass tourism in the Canary Islands which is allegedly increasing house prices for locals.
2024-04-20

Canary Islands President Fernando Clavijo says police confirmed that a wildfire on the island of Tenerife, Spain, was started deliberately.
2023-08-20

Spain's Maritime Safety and Rescue Society rescues 86 people from a pirogue off the Canary Islands after human rights defender Helena Maleno reports that three boats carrying around 300 people from Senegal have gone missing since June.
2023-07-10

At least 35 people are missing after a dinghy carrying migrants sinks off the coast of the Canary Islands, Spain.
2023-06-21

A person is killed and 24 are missing after a migrant vessel crashes off the coast of Spain's Canary Islands.
2022-04-26

A boat capsizes off the coast of Mauritania with 47 people on board presumed dead. The Mauritanian Coast Guard rescues several people from the sea. The boat had departed from Western Sahara and was travelling to the Canary Islands, Spain.
2021-08-17

Spain confirms its third case in Tenerife, Canary Islands, from an Italian tourist.
2020-02-24

The Ministry of Health of Spain confirms the first case of coronavirus in the country in La Gomera, Canary Islands, from a German tourist.
2020-01-31

The foreign ministries of Spain and Morocco announce they will hold talks to resolve a dispute over territorial water rights in the North Atlantic, caused by the Moroccan parliament passing two laws that extended its claims to the coast of Western Sahara earlier this week. Spain expressed concerns that these laws would encroach on its claims near the Canary Islands.
2020-01-24

In Great Britain, at least 29 flights from London Stansted Airport to Spain-Portugal-Canary Islands, at least seven flights from London Gatwick Airport to Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid and Portugal, and at least one flight from London Heathrow Airport to La Coruña are cancelled.
2010-05-8