Lesvos

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...

There was a spike in the numbers of new asylum seekers arriving in Greece with 51 new arrivals in the last 24 hours bringing the number of refugees and immigrants trapped on the island of Mytilene, Lesvos, to 4,964...

The number of stranded asylum seekers on Lesvos reached 5,000 as more landed on the island on Tuesday, causing concern among authorities and residents. On Tuesday morning, 90 refugees were collected by the coast guard in the sea area south...

More than 300 migrants combined landed on the islands of Chios, Lesvos and Kos on Monday morning, raising concerns about the ability of Greek authorities to manage the inflow. Specifically, Lesvos received 176 refugees, 89 landed on Chios and 50...

Mehdi Salehi fled his native Afghanistan fifteen years ago to escape the Taliban and has now turned his attention to trying to help the migrants fleeing their countries using the popular Greece-Turkey route. When Mehdi reached the shores of Greece...

In a symbolic gesture of Turkish-Greek friendship, Turkish long-distance swimmer Seda Kansuk swam the 11 kilometer distance between the coast of Turkey and Eftalou on the Greek island of Lesvos; a popular route used by migrants fleeing conflict zones trying...

The Hoteliers Associations of Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Kos and Leros are offering discounts of 50 percent in hotel prices as part of a coordinated action to boost tourism on the islands of the eastern...

On Friday morning the Greek coast guard picked up a boat carrying some 70 migrants near the southwest of the Peloponnese region of Greece, the AP reports. The boat ran ashore the uninhabited isle of Sapientza at the southwestern tip of...

Hoteliers in Samos, Lesvos, Chios, Kos and Leros -- the islands most affected by the refugee crisis last year -- are slashing prices for rooms and tourist packages by up to 50 percent for Greek tourists who will visit...

The Greek government is planning to establish permanent camps that can accommodate up to 1,000 migrants and refugees all over Greece. According to a government official who spoke to Reuters, the aim is to decongest the northeastern Aegean islands that...