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Six residents from the village of Idomeni on the Greek border, including the community's president Xanthoula Soupli, on Wednesday filed a legal suit against Alternate Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas for failing to protect the village from problems created...

The Greek ambassador returned to Austria on Wednesday, putting an official end to an acrimonious argument that began after the shut-down of the Balkan route to central Europe for migrants. Austria was the country that organized the closing of the...

At the village of Chamilo, near Greece's border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), refugees and migrants attempting to cross the Suva Reka river are once again caught between a rock and a hard place. At least...

The Council of Europe's new report addressing the situation of refugees and migrants in Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was published on Wednesday by Tomáš Boček, the Special Representative on Migration and Refugees of the Council...

A campaign for the vaccination of refugees and migrants in Greece will start by the makeshift camp of Idomeni on Wednesday, the health ministry announced on Tuesday, adding it will supervise the procedure. The vaccination will be carried out by...

This September, the United Nations General Assembly will bring together world leaders to address one of the leading challenges of our time: responding to large movements of refugees and migrants. War, human rights violations, underdevelopment, climate change and natural disasters...

Tension broke out in Idomeni when groups of Pakistani and Afghan refugees and migrants clashed by throwing rocks and other objects. The Police interfered by using tear gas. One refugee who was hit by rocks was transferred by the MSF...

The majority of refugees and migrants stranded in Idomeni, on the Greece - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, are there with expired documents, said Migration Policy Minister Yannis Mouzalas. "The (registration) papers of 70 percent of the people at Idomeni...

A new U.N. report expresses concern about rising xenophobia and discrimination against migrants and refugees. “Xenophobic and racist responses to refugees and migrants seem to be reaching new levels of stridency, frequency and public acceptance,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says...

About 800 migrants tried to illegally cross from Greece to FYROM in the past 48 hours, according to media reports from the latter. FYROM media say that the migrants tried to enter the country from several points of the fence but...