immigrants

Overcrowded inflatable boats of questionable stability carry every day downtrodden citizens of other countries to countries which are considered to be the “Land of Promise.” Many of them get lost at sea and others arrive to some land. Everyone...

A total of 130 immigrants, who were on a sailing boat that sent out an SOS signal when it took on water near Koufonissi off Ierapetra on the Greek island of Crete, will be put in an-indoor school gym...

As Greece completed a 10.5-kilometer (6.5 miles) long fence on its border with Turkey along the Evros River in a bid to keep out seemingly endless waves of illegal immigrants, a small boat carrying an overload of Iraqis fleeing...

Greek police closed a volunteer-run migrant camp on the island of Lesvos after Bloomberg News reported that local authorities failed to help the refugees fleeing conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria. Undocumented immigrants living at the camp were given notice to...

A small boat carrying migrants hoping to get to Greece sank near the eastern island of Lesvos early on Dec. 15, drowning 22 people, Greek police said. The boat had set off from the nearby Turkish coast carrying 27 migrants...

Immigrants living in Greece sent a total of 922 million euros ($1.2 billion) to their countries of origin last year, a 14.6 percent decline compared to the year before, numbers from the European Union's statistics agency Eurostat revealed. In 2011,...

A barbed-wire fence running along a 12.5-kilometer (7.76-mile) stretch of land border between Greece and Turkey is expected to be finished and operational by mid-December in a bid to keep out illegal immigrants, sources at the Public Order Ministry ...

Hundreds of Greeks joined a demonstration called by Leftist groups on Nov. 24 to protest a rise in racist attacks on migrants, some attributed to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that is now in Parliament. The Leftists and anarchists took...

German prosecutors have charged a woman, with the murders of 10 people, a Greek among them. The woman is the third person believed to be in the National Socialist Underground, a neo-Nazi group who operated from 2000 to 2007. The...

Joachim Tavlaridis' legendary milk bar in Australia turns 80 years old. Tavlaridis - who later adopted the name Mick Adams - migrated from Greece at the age of 14, shortly before the Asia Minor Catastrophe in 1922. He started...