Greece

According to sources, on Monday morning in northern Greece a fire broke out in a migrant reception center in Nea Kavala, Kilkis. Officials are not sure how the fire began at around 6 a.m. and are looking into possible causes...

An insignificant row over a parking spot turned into a tragic double homicide in the town of Chryssoupolis near Kavala in Northern Greece on Thursday. A 42-year old man shot his neighbor and his mother dead following a heated argument they...

Kavala, a major port-city of the Macedonia region of Northern Greece, is about to see a large seaside resort being built inside the municipality’s boundaries. The new project is expected to cost more than €30 million ($35 million) and will...

Four of the 19 migrants located on Wednesday in a dinghy 15 miles east of the island of Thassos are dead, the doctor who examined them at the port of Kavala said. The search and rescue operation started on Tuesday...

Residents of the Greek islands of Samothrace and Tenedos, and as far away as Mytilene, were rocked by an earthquake of 5.1 Richter on July 30, recorded by the Euro-Mediterranean Institute. It was even felt in the town of...

The local community of Akropotamos in Kavala, Makedonia, is mourning the death of two teenagers 16 and 18 years old, who were killed when the car the 16-year-old was driving went off the road. The tragic incident happened on the...

"Boca Lupo", a novel by Panos Kazolis, follows the life of Mario, a young Greek sailor who seeks a career in cigarette smuggling around the Mediterranean to escape the poverty and hardship of life in the merchant navy. Young and...

More than 700 migrants and asylum seekers who originally landed on the shores of Lesvos arrived on Tuesday morning at the port of Thessaloniki, as the Greek government intensifies its efforts to reduce overcrowding on the islands. The chartered vessel...

Greece started, on Monday, the transfer of 1,500 asylum seekers from the northern Aegean island of Lesvos to the mainland on two chartered catamaran vessels. The first 650 people were transferred early Monday morning and the rest later on Monday....

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis convened on Saturday a meeting of his top security officials as fears grow that the number of migrants crossing from Turkey is getting out of control. The session of the government council on foreign affairs...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendas summoned the Turkish Ambassador to Greece, Burak Özügergin, on Friday to protest the huge numbers of migrants who arrived from Turkish shores to Greece's Lesvos Island on Thursday. According to Greek media reports, Dendias expressed Greece's...

ITV2 ‘Love Island’ reality show stars Camilla Thurlow and Jamie Jewitt have travelled to a refugee camp in Greece to help out amid the current migrant crisis. The couple have been working with charity A Drop In The Ocean to...

According to government plans, around three-quarters of Greece's migrant reception centers will be closed by September. The plan is to allow the 56,000 refugees who have reached Greece's shores and found themselves unable to travel on to other destinations due...

About 13,000 refugees are stranded under bad weather conditions at Idomeni as Slovenia and Serbia sealed their borders; the Greek government is considering the relocation of all refugees from the Greece-FYROM border. Greek media describe the situation at the neutral...

The refugee situation in Greece is becoming desperate as numbers increase and bad weather and infectious diseases create health hazards. Thousands of refugees and migrants are stranded at Idomeni, in the Greece-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia border. As numbers increase, so...