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...
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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...
UNHCR says stops transporting migrants in Lesbos, unhappy with EU-Turkey deal
The United Nations refugee agency has stopped transporting migrants arriving on Lesbos from Turkey to a reception facility as their subsequent freedom of movement is...
Five Afghans, including baby, drown trying to reach Greece from Turkey (Updated with Video)
By Melih Aslan and Ayla Jean Yackley Five Afghans, including two children and a six-month old baby, drowned in the Aegean overnight trying to reach...
Unknown dead fill Lesbos cemetery for refugees drowned at sea
By Karolina Tagaris She drowned trying to reach Europe, but her headless body was never identified. Her tombstone will bear no name. Like others buried...
Eight days in Moria
Aphrodite Iacovidou, a Cypriot junior doctor from a London hospital, describes her experience of volunteering at a Lesbos refugee camp dealing with up to 2,000 new...
Turkish authorities find bodies of 34migrants, search for survivors (Update 3)
By Melih Aslan Turkish authorities said they found the bodies of 34 migrants, at least three of them children, at two locations on the Aegean...
Fourteen dead after migrant boat sinks off Turkish coast – report
Fourteen people died and a further 27 were rescued by Turkish authorities after their boat sank on its way to the Greek island of Lesbos,...
Greece says twenty-two migrants drown off Aegean islands, 144 rescued
Greece rescued 138 refugees and recovered the bodies of 19 after their boat capsized off the island of Kalymnos, the coastguard said on Friday, in...
Greece searches for 34 migrants off Lesbos, five children drown
An extensive search was underway off a Greek island on Thursday for at least 34 people missing after their boat sank in one of the...
Woman, two children drown as migrant boat hits rocks off Greek island
A woman and two children drowned when an inflatable dinghy carrying 63 migrants hit rocks off the Greek island of Lesbos on Sunday, Greek authorities...
Greece recovers bodies of migrant children and baby off Lesbos
A baby, two children and a woman drowned on Thursday after their wooden boat and a coast guard vessel crashed during a migrant rescue operation...
Greece says EU must stop “racist criteria” in refugee relocation
By Karolina Tagaris The European Union must stop countries picking and choosing which refugees they accept in its relocation programme, otherwise it will turn into...
Baby dies after migrant boat breaks down off Greek island
A baby died after the rubber boat carrying him and another 56 migrants broke down and was left adrift off the Greek island of Lesbos,...
