Two immigrants were found by police and the guardia civil hiding in the false bottom of a car trying to enter the city of Melilla in Spanish North Africa. Government officials announced on Saturday the completion of Operation Gull, which began eight months ago to dismantle the largest organisation of human smuggling in the city. Of the 30 members of the network who were identified, 21 have been arrested – 19 Spaniards and two Moroccans
Archive for March, 2009
More than 300 African migrants are feared dead after their boats sank off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says
A volcano in the American state of Alaska has erupted six times in 24 hours, shooting ash and steam 15km into the air. It’s the first time in 20 years that Mount Redoubt has come to life. Ash has fallen on nearby towns, but no-one is thought to be in danger. It has caused some flights that travel near the volcano to be cancelled
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7960000/newsid_7963500/7963594.stm
Scientists sailed out to have a closer look at the eruptions of an undersea volcano off the coast of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean today. Tonga’s head geologist, Kelepi Mafi, said there was no apparent danger to residents of Nuku’alofa and others living on the main island of Tongatapu. Officials also said it may be related to a quake with a magnitude of 4.4 which struck last March 13 around 35 kilometers from the capital at a depth of nearly 150 kilometres
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/undersea_eruptions_near_tonga.html
Guardian video is at……
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/mar/19/tonga-underwater-volcano
World leaders are meeting in London on 2 April to discuss plans to tackle the current economic crisis. We explain why the meeting has been called and what it hopes to accomplish.
As the largest country in South America, and one of the world’s leading developing nations, Brazil will come to the G20 summit in London in the expectation of making its weight felt.
The economic slowdown has made a big impact on the copper industry in Zambia, with more than 1,000 people losing their jobs at one mine alone
A building believed to be the world’s first wind-powered mega structure is being tested in the Middle East. The Bahrain World Trade Centre has three huge blades incorporated at the centre of its design.
Check out the abandonned skyscrappers in Sao Paulo being used for migrants moving to the city, vertical shanty towns!
Welcome to Breathing Earth. This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.
