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Athens Issues NAVTEX from Lesvos to Samos to Limit Refugee, Migrant Passages
Greek authorities recently issued a Navigational Telex (NAVTEX), legally blocking off a large maritime area around the islands of Lesvos, Chios and Samos in...
US Embassy Issues Travel Warning for Lesvos, Samos, Chios and Evros Border
The American Embassy in Athens and the American Consulate General in Thessaloniki issued a travel warning on Wednesday for US citizens who currently are visiting...
Greek Orthodox Church on Lesvos Island Destroyed by Vandals
The small church of Hagios Georgios (Saint George) near the village of Moria on Lesvos was vandalized by unknown assailants on Monday.
Some local people...
Fake News on Lesvos Makes Refugees, Migrants Rush to Mytilene Port
The spreading of misinformation aiming to cause new tensions on the Greek island of Lesvos led many refugees and migrants to rush to the...
Residents on Lesvos, Chios Clash With Police Over New Migrant Camps
Hundreds of residents on the Greek islands of Lesvos and Chios clashed with police in the early hours of Tuesday as they attempted to...
Exotic Greek Islet Off Lesvos Proposed as Migrant Detention Center
Local authorities on the Greek island of Lesvos, which has been the unwilling epicenter of Europe's ongoing immigration crisis, appear to have proposed a...
Greece's Lesvos Island in Turmoil as Migrants Demonstrate for Second Day
Hundreds of refugees and migrants gathered on Tuesday in the center of Mytilini, the capital of the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, protesting the...
Greek Police Clash with Migrants on Lesvos
Police on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos used tear gas to disperse a march by asylum seekers and migrants from the infamous Moria...
First Baby Born in 2020 on Greece's Lesvos was Born Into a Refugee Family
The first baby to be born in 2020 on Greece's island of Lesvos was a boy from a family of Iraqi refugees.
The boy was...
Refugee Dies in Container Fire in Greece's Lesvos Migrant Camp
A 27-year-old female Afghan refugee burned to death early on Thursday morning in the container in which she was living with her family in...