Canary Islands

(FILES) A 'cayuco' boat from Senegal with 136 migrants onboard including 40 women and 17 young children arrives after being rescued at sea by a Spanish Salvamento Maritimo (Sea Search and Rescue agency) vessel, at La Restinga port on the Canary island of El Hierro, on Nov. 28, 2024.

Plovdiv has been ranked third among the top Christmas destinations in Europe for 2024 by Forbes.

The number of migrants arriving in Spain's Canary Islands so far this year has passed the record number set during all of 2006, official figures showed Thursday.

According to the first information, it is a man who returned from the Canary Islands.
The head of the Slovenian Center for Infectious Diseases, Mario Fafangel, said that the infected person was admitted to the hospital and that he was feeling well.
He emphasized that the risk for the general population is assessed as low.

Authorities have evacuated about 5,000 people from villages in the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma as lava spews from an erupting volcano, local officials said.

The 15m high lava flow has already swallowed 20 houses in the village of El Paso and sections of roads, Mayor Sergio Rodriguez told TVE radio station on Monday morning (Sep 20).

A volcano erupted on Sunday on the La Palma Canary Island. As a result of the eruption in the Cumbre Vieja national park in the south of the island huge fountains of lava and clouds of smoke and ash were released. No fatalities have been reported so far.

A volcano erupted on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma on Sunday

Turkish students studying in the Canary Islands are back in Turkey due to severe sandstorms on the western coast of the Sahara Desert and the Atlantic Ocean.

The families of students had asked for help on social media from the Turkish Foreign Ministry upon the cancellation of flights due to the sandstorm.

A Turkish ship has rescued 24 African refugees stranded on a boat off the Canary Islands.

Huge forest fires rage on the Canary Islands. Flames, up 50 meters high, covered 3,400 hectares, forcing authorities to evacuate more than 5,000 people urgently, the Associated Press reported.