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Miami Art Week Features Photos by Refugee Women in Greece

A group of refugee women living in a camp in the village of Diavata near Thessaloniki, Greece have had their artworks displayed at Miami Art Week in southern Florida. The project was put together by Art 4 Humanity and is...

Syrian Leader: We Must Respect Greece, We Are Not in the Caliphate Anymore

As a nationalist group staged a beer and pork barbecue outside the migrant camp of Diavata, near Thessaloniki, on Sunday to protest against increasing numbers of migrants, the leader of the Syrian community in the country said that refugees...

Pork Barbecue Protest Near Migrant Camp Causes Uproar in Greece

A plan by an anti-migrant group to stage an outdoor party featuring pork and alcohol outside a migrant camp near Thessaloniki on Sunday has caused an uproar in Greece. Parliamentarians clashed over the proposed barbecue and thousands took to social...

One Dead After Train Collides With Car in Northern Greece

An horrific collision between a passenger train and a small automobile took place near the town of Diavata in Northern Greece on Monday morning. A train which was heading from Alexandroupolis to Thessaloniki collided with a small, compact car which...

Migrants Finally Leave Camp in Northern Greece after Skirmishes with Police (video)

Hundreds of migrants and refugees remained at the Diavata camp for the third day, until finally they started to leave on buses. Earlier, some of them clashed with police. On Thursday, a call on social media that the Idomeni border...

Clashes Between Migrants, Police Continue For Second Day in Northern Greece (video)

New clashes broke out on Friday afternoon between riot police and migrants near the Diavata reception centrer in northern Greece, after a new group of migrants tried to break through police lines in a bid to reach the border. About...

Commuter Chaos in Greece as Hundreds of Migrants Block Main Athens Train Station

Hundreds of migrants have occupied the main train station in Athens on Friday demanding to be allowed to travel north to join other migrants near Thessaloniki who attempted on Thursday to push toward the border with North Macedonia. Migrant families,...

Migrants Planning Border Push Clash With Greek Police Near Thessaloniki (video)

Hundreds of migrants from a camp in Diavata near Thessaloniki have spent Thursday night in the open hoping to flee via North Macedonia to Europe. Earlier, dozens clashed with the Greek riot police after trying to break through a cordon....

Migrants Endure Squalor, Freezing Temps in Greek Migrant Camp (video)

A heartbreaking video of the squalid conditions prevailing in the Diavata migrant camp in northern Greece was secretly filmed by volunteers early last week. It shows asylum seekers desperately trying to protect themselves from the freezing cold as the camp...

Two Injured in Refugee Protest at Diavata Camp

Two people were injured during a Monday morning protest that occurred in Thessaloniki’s refugee camp of Diavata. Approximately forty refugees and migrants blocked the road outside of the camp, demanding better living conditions. The Diavata area has been covered in snow...