Lesvos

Melinda McRostie is a Greek-Australian and a local Greek taverna owner on the Greek island of Lesvos. As many islanders on Lesvos, she helped the refugees when they first started arriving on the island, long before the international community...

Pope Francis donated 50,000 euros to address the needs of the earthquake victims of Lesvos, the Vatican's Apostolic Nunciature in Athens said on Sunday. "The Holy Father, because he feels very close to the earthquake victims on the island of...

The island of Lesvos received 940 migrants and refugees in June, a record number for 2017, says an Athens News Agency report. Compared to the rest of the year, June has been a record month as the island saw 456...

The Antiquities Ephorate of Lesvos in the context of the cultural action "Unique finds at the Archaeological Museum of Mytilene" will present on Wednesday at 8 p.m. the fourth archaeological find within this series of event entitled "Eternal light....

Greece continues to see an influx of migrants arriving on its shores as the summer weather encourages more people fleeing their countries to attempt the dangerous crossing of the Aegean Sea in hopes of reaching Europe. The area of...

The European Union must "reach the limits of its laws" in order to assist work to restore quake-stricken Vrisa and another 12 settlements on the island of Lesvos, President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Sunday while...

Sixty-eight new migrant and refugees arrivals were recorded on the island of Lesvos in the last 48 hours while no arrivals were reported on the islands of Chios and Samos. According to police, 3,717 persons seeking asylum that have not...

Following the 6.1 Richter earthquake that jolted the Greek island of Lesvos last week, inspectors have concluded that of the 1,245 buildings that were damaged, 690 have been damaged beyond repair and deemed "unusable." Inspectors have examined some 1,092 homes...

Migrant flow from Turkey to the northeastern Aegean islands is on the rise in the past ten days putting locals under great pressure in the middle of the tourist season. Lesvos and Chios are the two islands that see the...

Four hundred and eighty two buildings in Lesvos out of 854 inspected so far been declared uninhabitable by teams of civil engineers from the Infrastructure ministry who are visiting villages to record the damages caused by Monday's strong earthquake...