migrants

A 27-year-old disabled Syrian refugee received the Olympic flame on Tuesday at the Elaionas refugee camp in Athens. Ibrahim Al-Hussein received the torch by head of the Hellenic Olympic Committee Spyros Kapralos, thus representing tens of thousands of refugees in...

On Monday afternoon, Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan arrived on Lesvos island to visit the refugees and migrants in the camps. The Queen visited the Kara Tepe refugee camp and tweeted during her visit: "We need a collective and value-based response...

Several groups of refugees and migrants have tried to cross the Greek border to get into FYROM, but were detained by police and returned to the country, according to a Sputnik report. The report cites a witness who spoke to...

Queen Rania of Jordan is due to visit the island of Lesvos on Monday to meet with refugees there, the country’s royal press office announced yesterday. She will be the latest of high-profile figures following the recent visit of Pope...

Since NATO started patrolling the Aegean Sea in an attempt to reduce the number of refugees attempting to cross from Turkey to the Greek islands, various obstacles have arisen. While having to deal with the task of trying to keep...

The migrant flows from Turkey to Greece have picked up, after a hiatus due to the implementation of the European-Ankara agreement. "The arrivals in Greece which were down to literally zero this month are beginning to creep back up. In...

A 17-year-old Afghan female migrant died on Tuesday at Laiko Hospital in Athens from what appears to be a series of complications. The teenager was staying with her family at the makeshift migrant camp at former Athens airport at Elliniko....

Τhe European Commission announced the granting of 83 million euros within the framework of the new emergency support mechanism, for the improvement of the living conditions of the refugees in Greece. The financial assistance will be immediately granted to UNHCR,...

More than 400 people appear to have perished in their effort to reach Italy through Egypt, as the four over-filled boats on which they had boarded, were over-turned in the Mediterranean, BBC Arabic reports. Most of the passengers were refugees...

As of Monday, the "administrative restriction" process for asylum applicants on Lesvos and Chios is in effect, meaning that they cannot be detained in registration centers after 25 days. The migrants are gradually free to leave the hotspots since their...