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Passenger ferry Blue Star 1 along with a Hellenic Coast Guard boat rescued 61 refugees between Chios and Lesvos islands. According to the coast guard, Blue Star 1 and a coast guard patrol boat received a signal about people at...

  Athens has allegedly denied a U.S. request to close airspace to Russian aircraft that would transport humanitarian aid to Syria, according to a Sputnik report. According to the news agency report, citing as a source an anonymous Greek diplomat, Moscow...

Following the death of Aylan Kurdi, another child has passed away during his family's effort to migrate to Europe. A two month Syrian boy was declared dead on the island of Samos on Saturday after the boat that was transporting him and his family...

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris expressed his willingness to intervene and assist in the refugee crisis that has developed in Europe this past year. "Greece or Italy sell me an island, I'll call its independence and host the migrants and provide jobs for...

Below, you can find all the useful links and contact information of some of the humanitarian organizations struggling to cope with migrant suffering in Greece on a daily basis. Don't waste any more time, join one of the teams and offer your...

European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans and European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos visited Kos on Friday to be briefed on the volatile situation on the Aegean Sea island created by the increasing number of refugees. A meeting was held...

Greece's outspoken former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said that he will not support SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras in the upcoming elections, but he hopes they will remain friends. Speaking to CNBC on Friday morning, Varoufakis said he doesn't believe in...

Greek parties continue their election campaigns as polls show that SYRIZA and New Democracy are very close, while SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras claims he will not cooperate with his rival if he doesn't get clear majority. Former prime minister Tsipras...

The U.S. State Department revoked the designation of Greek urban guerilla group November 17 as a terrorist organization, as stated in the decision published in the Federal Register. The leftist organization acted between 1975 and 2002 and is responsible for the...

Greece's Coast Guard with the help of police on Friday morning made use of stun grenades to deal with the uprising of about a thousand refugees at the port of Mytilene, on the island of Lesvos. Thousands of refugees are...

The privatization program is not likely to reach its revenues target for 2015, said head of the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED), Stergios Pitsiorlas. Pitsiorlas talked to Reuters saying that the privatization deals are progressing despite the pre-election period,...

Relatives of the young refugee boys Aylan and Galip Kurdi whose bodies were found washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean have spoken for the first time, a Daily Mail report says. The three-year-old Aylan and his five-year-old brother...

On September 3, 1974 Andreas Papandreou formed the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), the party that ruled for 20 years and marked post-dictatorship politics in Greece. Papandreou, son of Georgios Papandreou who was in Greek politics from 1923 until 1967 and...

Greek Orthodox priest Papa Stratis was only 57 years old but the work that he left behind changed the lives of many people and will be remembered forever. The Greek priest, also known by the name Efstratios Dimou carried...

A new opinion poll on the Greek elections broadcast on Wednesday shows New Democracy leading slightly over SYRIZA by a 0.3 percentage point. This is the first poll showing ND having an edge over the leftist party. In the poll...