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The meeting of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will take place on May 23 in Istanbul, according to sources. The meeting will be held on the sidelines of the World Humanitarian UN Summit and will focus...

The fourth annual Athens Democracy Forum, hosted and moderated by New York Times editors, will be held in the City of Athens on September 14-18 this year on the theme "Religion, Migration, Power + Money." According to the NYT organizers,...

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci stated that they are committed to stepping up talks in hopes of reaching a reunification deal by the end the year. Anastasiades and Akinci released a joint statement on the...

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...

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...

Cyprus talks are going well "last we heard," a UN Secretary General spokesman has said, adding however that he would refrain from making predictions. "Finding a settlement in Cyprus should not be like when one talks about 60% or 70%...

The U.N. refugee agency is confirming reports that up to 500 people may have lost their lives when an overcrowded boat capsized and sank earlier this month in the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy. The incident reportedly happened...

On Tuesday afternoon, former Greek Minister Gerasimos Arsenis, died at the age of 85. Gerasimos Arsenis had been hospitalized for the past month and his death is most likely attributed to upper respiratory infection. Gerasimos Arsenis was born in Cephalonia in...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday expressed serious concerns about the recent agreement between the European Union and Turkey, pointing to what he termed “a contradiction at the heart of the agreement,”...

The UN Refugee Agency announced it is suspending some of its activities in Greece as it opposes mandatory detention, UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming said during a press conference in Geneva, adding that open hot spots are being turned into...