Lesvos

"The greatest challenge for this year is to have a really common European asylum system and a just sharing of a responsibility system in the EU member-states, UN Assistant High Commissioner for Protection and Director of the Division of...

The crossing of refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria at the buffer zone between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) in Idomeni was conducted smoothly today. This is a positive transition on border crossings, especially in light of...

The adverse weather conditions that prevail across the country have, at least temporarily intercepted the migrants and refugees inflow to Lesvos in the last 24 hours. Only 17 persons have been identified at Moria hotspot while according to authorities 2,854...

Another tragedy involving refugees occurred off the coast of Samos, Greece. Greek Coast Guard officials were patrolling the area close to the Greek island when they spotted the bodies of six refugees. The officials managed to retrieve the bodies of...

The case of a British Muslim who set up a temporary mosque on the Greek island of Lesvos for the religious needs of the refugees stranded there remains something of a mystery, but the country's authorities are investigating the case...

The Photographic Society of Mytilene is planning to present a group photo exhibition entitled "Refugees" at the society's exhibition venue, at the Lower Fortress of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesvos from January 25 to February 5. The photos will...

The Greek Coast Guard will be enlisting the help of a robot called EMILY (Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard) in order to deal with the refugee issue. The robot rescuer, developed by Hydronalix, arrived in Greece thanks to the Center...

  If you didn’t already have enough to be nervous about, just consider the early hours of 2016. January 1 brought above freezing temperatures to Antarctica, below freezing temperatures to Damascus, Dubai quite literally was overshadowed in a fiery inferno and...

Nearly 1.1 million people registered as migrants within the German borders last year. In figures released Wednesday, Germany said 428,468 migrants were part of the flood of people exiting Syria. Syrians, fleeing a violent war at home, were by far the largest...

The bodies of 21 migrants and refugees who were attempting to cross from Turkey to the Greek islands when their boat capsized due to the rainy weather conditions, washed up in the Aegean district of Ayvalık, Turkey on Tuesday, Greek media reports. The boat transporting migrants...