Lesvos

The group exhibit Lines of Passage will be on display at the Municipal Art Gallery in Mytilene, Lesvos from September 30 until November 11. The group show will feature selected artwork from the permanent collection of the Elgiz Museum in...

A total of 308 migrants and refugees arrived on the islands of the northern Aegean over the last 48 hours. Ninety-three refugees arrived on Lesvos, 155 on Chios and 60 on Samos. According to the police, 5,264 are trapped on Lesvos,...

The latest tally shows that 84 migrants and refugees arrived on the island of Lesvos while another 115 reached the coasts of Chios in the last 24 hours. No arrivals were recorded on Samos island. On Wednesday, 5,156 migrants...

The mayor of Lesvos asked for the transfer of a large number of refugees and migrants from the island to mainland Greece, warning that conditions in the centers are “particularly worrying and dangerous” in an urgent letter to the...

Daphne Matziaraki, a Greek student at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism has won a Student Academy Award for her film 4.1 Miles. Daphne is one of 17 students who were awarded as winners at the 43rd Student Academy Awards competition after...

UNHCR announced on Tuesday that the Hellenic Rescue Team (HRT) made up of some 2,000 volunteers will share the annual Nansen prize for saving thousands of refugees with Efi Latsoudi, a human rights activist on the Greek island of...

  The Greek division of Doctors of the World (MdM-Greece) urged the government and other involved groups to put an end to the matter of unaccompanied minors being held at Moria's detention camp at Lesvos (Mytilene). A press release by...

Violent fights between ethnic groups of minors broke out at the Moria migrant registration center on Lesvos, leaving five underage migrants injured. About 3,500 refugees and migrants are at the 2,000-capacity registration center, including many women and children. The mix...

More than 1,000 women from all over the world gathered in Eresos village, on the Greek island of Lesvos, on Saturday for the 16th Women's Festival held every September. The festival will run until September 17, offering various events such...

Greek AFP photographer Aris Messinis was honored on Saturday, receiving the Visa d'Or for News, the most prestigious award handed out at the Visa Pour L'Image festival in Perpignan, southwestern France. The 39-year-old photographer was awarded for his coverage of the...