Lesvos

Authorities reported on Friday that coast guards on the Greek island of Lesvos apprehended a municipal employee and his partner early Thursday under the allegations that they were selling drugs to migrants at the Moria refugee camp. The two individuals...

A 41-year-old Syrian woman was arrested on Thursday for hiding her undocumented 23-year-old son in a suitcase in order to leave Lesvos island for Athens. Specifically, the Syrian refugee, who holds an international protection card and has the right to...

An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale occurred two minutes after midnight on Wednesday in the sea area southwest of Cephalonia island; another 4.4 eartquake hit Lesvos at 1:26 am. According to the Institute of Geodynamics of the National...

Sixty-Seven migrants and refugees arrived on Lesvos on Friday after zero arrivals on all the islands of the northern Aegean in the last ten days. Police said that on Friday, 9,643 people who have sought asylum and whose requests have...

A new earthquake measuring 5 points on the Richter scale, rocked Lesvos island on Sunday afternoon, following a series of tremors during the week. No injuries or damages were reported by local authorities. The tremors were felt at 3:48 pm. The...

The evacuation of the warship Lesvos, which was docked at the port of Mytilene since January 12 hosting 170 migrants from Africa, started earlier on Saturday. 120 migrants have already been transferred to Moria hotspot while the rest of them...

A light quake shook Lesvos at 10:55 am on Friday morning measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale. The quake's epicenter was opposite the town of Molyvos on the Turkish coast and the same location of the recent moderate tremors the shook the...

Tourism bodies and municipal authorities in the northern Aegean reacted angrily to a letter by Alternate Foreign Minister George Katrougalos informing them that the European Commission rejected the extension of a visa facilitation pilot program that allowed Turkish nationals...

Fifty-four migrants and refugees arrived on northern Lesvos in the last 24 hours. No arrivals were reported on the islands of Chios and Samos. According to northern Aegean police, 10,057 people who are seeking asylum in Greece and have not been...

Greek seismologists are concerned about the activation of a fault 10 to 15 km north of Lesvos that can cause a 6.6 Richter earthquake. Professor of seismology at Aristotle Univerity of Thessaloniki Constantinos Papazachos expressed his view after the three...