Lesvos

A 10-year-old boy was pulled out of the water unconscious on Friday after a Frontex patrol vessel found a boat carrying 66 migrants off Lesvos. The child was transferred to the Vostaneio Hospital in Mytilene where his death was confirmed. Meanwhile,...

The three unidentified dead bodies that washed up on the northeastern shores of Lesvos in November may belong to a Turkish family fleeing persecution as Gulen supporters, investigating authorities on Lesvos said on Thursday. It was originally believed that the...

"The shame of Europe" is the broad description Spiegel magazine gives for the Moria refugee registration and hospitality centre in Moria, on the island of Lesvos. Greek authorities have banned reporters from entering the camp, but as the magazine's reporter...

The islands of Chios, Samos and Kos on Wednesday followed Lesvos in a general strike in order to protest the value added tax (VAT) hike and the handling of the migrant influx. The islands that host migrant registration and hospitality centres...

Turkish media reported that the bodies of three children discovered at a beach on the Greek island of Lesvos earlier in November, belong to family that drowned while attempting to flee persecution in Turkey. The grim discovery on November 11...

The offices of Moria refugee processing center on Lesvos suffered extensive damage on Sunday night, as a result of migrants rioting. According to reports, the migrants had been complaining about overcrowding at the centre, and their complaints turned to anger as...

  Greek Police were called in the early hours of Monday morning, to quell a riot that broke out at the Moria refugee processing center on Lesvos. Reports suggested the riot was mostly restricted to the area of the massively overcrowded...

Authorities on the island of Lesvos have called a strike and are urging residents to take part in anti-government protests, to press for a change in European Union policy of containment of refugees and migrants on Greece’s islands. In a...

Μigrant and refugee flows to Lesvos and other Greek islands in the northeastern Aegean remained high in November, based on the latest figures released by the UN Migration Agency IOM, on Tuesday.  According to the IOM data, more than 1,500 migrants...

Greek authorities are trying to solve the puzzle over the gruesome find of three bodies of young children discovered in Lesvos over the last few days. A body belonging to a 12-13 year old girl was discovered on Thursday near...