Migrant woman drowns off Greek island of Lesbos, two rescued
One woman drowned off the Greek island of Lesbos and two others were rescued on Friday after they fell out of an overcrowded inflatable raft...
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Clashes break out on Greek island against migrant camp
Clashes broke out on the Greek island of Lesbos early on Tuesday between police and residents protesting the construction of a migrant detention centre, witnesses...
IRC warns of mental health crisis on Lesbos
Greece moved another 400 people from its biggest migrant camp on Tuesday as the International Rescue Committee (IRC) charity warned of a mental health emergency...
Situation ‘at boiling point’ at refugee centre on Greek island
The United Nations refugee agency urged Greece on Friday to speed up transfers of eligible asylum-seekers from Aegean islands to the mainland, saying conditions at an overcrowded...
Greek gunboat on patrol nudged by Turkish cargo vessel
A Greek gunboat was nudged by a Turkish cargo vessel early on Friday while on patrol for unauthorised migrant crossings in the Aegean Sea, the...
At least 15 drown as migrant boat sinks off Lesbos (Update)
At least 15 people, including a child, drowned when an inflatable boat carrying refugees and migrants sank off Greece’s Lesbos island, officials said on Monday....
On Greece’s Lesbos, migrants remain in limbo in squalid camps
The flow of new arrivals has slowed to a trickle, but thousands of migrants remain in limbo on Greece’s islands, in grim camps they liken...
Greek islanders tipped for Peace Nobel stoic about nomination
For months Greek fisherman Stratis Valamios would steer his boat out to sea, only instead of fish, he pulled out people. Day after day, rubber...
Clashes break out at migrants camp on Greek island
Stone-throwing migrants clashed with police at the Moria detention centre on the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday shortly after the Dutch and Greek migration...
Tears flow as Pope visits Europe’s migrant frontline
Migrants wept at his feet, kissed his hand and begged for Pope Francis’s help on Saturday at a Greek refugee camp on the frontline of...
