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Greece Accused of Scant Investigation Into Fatal Migrant Boat Sinking

On Thursday, Greece was accused of inadequately investigating the circumstances surrounding a migrant boat sinking that claimed the lives of hundreds six months ago. The joint report by leading international human rights groups, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, asserts...

Obama on the Titanic Sub and the Greek Migrant Boat Disaster

Former US President Barack Obama highlighted uncomfortable parallels between the media coverage surrounding the Titanic sub and the migrant boat disaster off Greece last week. Speaking in Athens on Friday before the news broke of the Titanic submarine disaster in...

Hundreds Feared Dead in Migrant Boat Disaster Off Greece

Hundreds of migrants are feared dead after the sinking of a migrant boat off southern Greece early on Wednesday in one of the deadliest migrant disasters in the Mediterranean. Rescuers saved 104 passengers - including Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Afghans and...

Greece Warns of ‘Accident’ With Turkey Over Coast Guard Operations

Greece said in a letter to the EU that an "accident" involving coast guard vessels from Turkey in the Aegean could result in the escalation of tensions between the two NATO allies. In the letter addressed to Josep Borrell, chief...

Greek Coast Guard Harassed, Fires Warning Shots at Turkish Patrol Boat

A Greek Coast Guard patrol boat’s crew fired warning shots early on Thursday to deter a Turkish coast guard vessel that was trying to ram them in the eastern Aegean Sea, authorities in Athens said. A Greek Coast Guard statement...

At Least 17 Migrants Drown, Scores Missing After Boats Sink Off Greece

At least seventeen migrants died and dozens are missing after two separate boats sank off Greece on Wednesday evening. The Greek Coast Guard announced that seventeen migrants, sixteen women and a fifteen-year-old boy drowned as their boat sank off the...

Greece Releases Video of Migrants Being Attacked by Turkey’s Coast Guard

Greece released a video on Wednesday that apparently shows Turkey's Coast Guard violently pushing a boat full of migrants toward the Greek islands of the Aegean. The video was released by Greek Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis who claims...

Stranded Migrant Gives Birth on a Rocky Islet in Greece

A woman from Eritrea has given birth on an uninhabited rocky islet near Lesvos, Greece on Wednesday after traveling with other migrants from nearby Turkey. A coast guard official said 29 Eritreans—24 men and five women—were spotted during a patrol...

Norwegian Photographer Suspected of Espionage Arrested on Greece’s Lesvos

Internationally acclaimed Norwegian photographer Knut Bry was arrested on the Greek island of Lesvos on Thursday, suspected of espionage. According to local media stonisi, he was arrested for taking pictures of the Greek Coast Guard and Navy vessels. Citing Coast Guard...

Bodies of Seven Migrants Wash Up on Lesvos, Greece

Authorities in Lesvos, Greece announced on Tuesday that at least seven migrants have been found dead there, their bodies washed up on a beach. The victims, among them children and women, were migrants who started out from the Turkish coast...