Lesvos

More than 60 refugees and migrants, most of them women and children have died while making the dangerous trip from Turkey to Greece in an attempt to flee conflict stricken countries in the Middle East. The Greek government has...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and European Parliament President Martin Schulz will visit the East Aegean Greek island of Lesvos this upcoming Thursday in the context of the ongoing refugee crisis, Greek media reports. Out of the more than 500,000 migrants...

A new deadly shipwreck in Greek waters left four more refugees dead and allegedly 38 more missing on Wednesday as winds in the Aegean Sea reached 8 points on the Beaufort scale. A wooden boat carrying about 300 refugees --...

A number of different shipwrecks in the East Aegean Greek Sea has left seven people dead, including five children. The Hellenic Coast Guard conducted a rescue operation after a boat carrying migrants and refugees capsized north of East Aegean Greek island of Lesvos....

A boat capsized near the Greek island of Lesvos on Monday October 26 around 7am, leading to the death of a woman just off the coast of Mytilene, Greece. The plastic vessel was carrying an unknown number of refugee...

An infant, a six-year old child, and a woman drowned on Sunday in their attempt to reach the coast of Lesvos. 13 are missing as well when a plastic boat overturned around 6:00 AM. 50 people were on the boat, which sunk...

The European Commission is planning to create a huge refugee reception center in Athens, Greece, to address the great influx of migrants in the country, according to German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel. The center is designed to host 40,000 - 50,000 people...

A huge inflow of migrants and refugees to Athens continued on Saturday as more than 2,500 people arrived to Greece's capital from the Greek island of Lesvos. Despite the extremely bad weather conditions last week - and ignoring the high drowning risk- smuggling boats...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Friday that in the past five days arrivals in Greece have reached unprecedented levels. “Despite deteriorating weather conditions, approximately 48,000 refugees and migrants crossed from Turkey to the Greek islands – or about...

A stone-built cist tomb (stone-lined grave) dating from the Mycenaean period was unearthed in eastern Lesvos on Thursday, during improvement works on a rural road. According to the head of the island’s ephorate, Pavlos Triantafylidis, archaeologists found the remains of a...