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Greek authorities on Sunday located a sailing boat with 41 refugees and migrants on board, following a search-and-rescue operation launched by the coast guard and the EU border agency Frontex in response to a distress call to the European...

A total 173 migrants crossed to the North Aegean islands from Turkey in the past 48 hours, while another 29 were found stranded on Ro islet on Wednesday. The migrants landed on the islands of Chios (58) and Samos (115),...

105 refugees were rescued in two different incidents after 7 am on Friday. A Romanian vessel of Frontex located and rescued 45 refugees and migrants in the sea region of Keramia, Chios island. Another 60 refugees and migrants were rescued...

Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri is meeting today (Thursday) with top Greek officials to discuss the issue of migrant smuggling in the Aegean. Leggeri is meeting with Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas, Shipping Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis, Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas and...

One hundred and forty-five refugees and migrants arrived in Chios, Greece,on Wednesday breaking a two-week lull in arrivals. The first group of 18 people, six of whom were children, was located in the sea area near the Inousses islet complex....

Germany is to send 30 policemen to guard Greece's northern border in fear that the country would be flooded by migrants who will try to cross to northern Europe, a Spiegel report says. The report which is posted in the...

Ten people were readmitted to Turkey on Friday after the rejection of their asylum requests according to EU-Turkey agreement. Six of them were Pakistani nationals, one from Iraq, one from Iran, one from Algeria and one from Egypt. Nine...

Nineteen Syrians who were refused the continuation of asylum status were relocated in accordance with the EU-Turkey agreement. More specifically, six men, three women and 10 children were transferred from the airport of Mytilene to the airport of Adana on...

The Greek government has asked Frontex, the European Union's border agency, to guard Greece’s northern borders in a request filed in September, Greek Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) on Tuesday, confirming a report...

Frontex is sending guards to patrol Greece's borders with FYROM and Albania in case Turkey starts sending boat loads of migrants to Greece, a Spiegel report says. According to the German magazine, the threat of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...