Some 230 African migrants were taken to Spain’s Canary Islands after authorities rescued them at sea in the biggest-ever landing here of a single ship, officials said Tuesday. Coastguards spotted the wooden boat when it was about 50 nautical miles (92 kilometres) south of the Atlantic archipelago and took them to the port of Los Cristianos in Tenerife late Monday. It was the largest-ever migrant arrival from a single boat in the Canary Islands, a spokesman for the representative of the centra

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Record 230 African boat people land on Canary Islands