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Greek Coast Guard located 16 undocumented migrants early Tuesday on a beach on Samos island. The migrants and refugees had disembarked from a dinghy and told the authorities that a man that was among them fell into the water and...

A total of 58 migrants and refugees arrived on the northern Greek islands in the last three days. 47 persons arrived on Lesvos and 11 on Samos while no arrivals were recorded on Chios. According to police, on Sunday morning...

Italy's coast guard said Friday that it had rescued about 1,000 migrants from leaky boats in the Mediterranean; one person was found dead. Officials said the migrants were found on nine different boats — six of them inflatable and three...

The European Commission on Wednesday suggested that border controls within the Schengen zone should be extended for another three months as migration authorities are still working on a plan to manage the migrant crisis. According to a Kathimerini newspaper report,...

A total of 72 refugees and migrants arrived on the northern Aegean islands in the last three days. Twenty-two were recorded on the island of Lesvos , two on Chios and 48 on the island of Samos. According to...

The latest rotation of Slovak officers are going to be taking post on the FYROM-Greece border. This will be the 6th rotation of the officers from the Republic of Slovakia who are girding the FYROM border in efforts to prevent...

Police said that as of Thursday 10,956 people that have applied for asylum remain stranded on the islands of Lesvos, Chios and Samos as their requests have been not examined yet. A total of 20 migrants and refugees arrived on Wednesday on...

All Greeks and Europeans have a humanitarian imperative to alleviate the situation on the Greek islands, for the migrants as well as for the islands' inhabitants, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Wednesday...

Shantha Rau Barriga, the disability rights director at Human Rights Watch has called out Greek authorities and NPOs alike in the mishandling of refugees with disabilities who are living at various camps throughout Greece. “People with disabilities are being overlooked...

On Tuesday Greek authorities reported that a second migrant's life has been lost in direct correlation to the freezing temperatures in the northern region of the country. The body of a man was found buried in the snow outside of...