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A fire broke out from unknown circumstances around 4:45 am on Wednesday morning at the migrant camp in Oraiokastro in northern Greece. Three Syrian refuges, two children and their mother, were injured when their tent caught fire. The eight-year old...

A rescue operation is in progress in the sea region of Neapolis (southern Peloponnese) to locate a vessel transporting an unknown number of migrants. Migrants aboard the vessel called for emergency help at 112 and asked for assistance late Monday evening. The rescue...

A refugee boy, aged about six, suffered a serious head injury when he was hit by a passing car along with another underage refugee in a rural road in Leros on Tuesday evening. According to the local police, the exact...

On Sunday, Riots broke out late in the evening in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki outside of Oreokastro Migrant Camp which accommodates some 1,300 refugees. According to Greek authorities, refugees who are residents at the center flooded the streets...

On Monday, Greek volunteers Efi Latsoudi and Konstantinos Mitragas on behalf of the Hellenic Rescue Team (HRT) became the latest in a long line of distinguished everyday heroes to receive UNHCR’s prestigious annual Nansen Refugee Award. Both winners of the...

Once again the German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere is insisting that it is time for Greece to implement the Dublin regulations, which states that migrants seeking asylum in an EU country from elsewhere must apply for asylum in...

"The walls and fences take us back to the deeply divided postwar Europe of the past," EU Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Sunday in an interview with Realnews newspaper. Avramopoulos expressed his optimism over the refugee relocation program...

According to police reports on Wednesday, a 16-year-old Pakistani boy was gang-raped by four other Pakistani boys aged 16 to 17 on Sunday at the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesvos. "The four minors, aged 16 to...

On Monday, forty-eight migrants including 16 children were located by the Greek coast guard aboard a sailboat in the sea area between Kefalonia and Zakynthos, after transmitting a distress signal though Olympia radio. Following the distress call and confirmed location, a freight vessel...

According to Reuters, on Monday the European Union (EU) agreed to slash funding from  EU's 2017 budget for poor regions to reallocate spending to manage the migrant crisis impacting the EU. The result of slashing funds to poor regions of the EU bloc...