migrants

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have stated in a recent report that Greece’s refugee reception system is “dysfunctional.” Thousands of migrants and refugees risk their lives to reach the Aegean Sea islands each year, where they are faced with inhuman...

According to a recent survey conducted by the Hellenic Dental Association (EOO), approximately 85% of teens in Greece suffer from tooth decay. The report, presented this Wednesday, showed that only 16.3% of 15-year-old Greeks are not plagued by tooth decay. Furthermore, the...

A luxury cruise ship which recently made port at the Greek island of Mytilene presented nothing short of a miracle for migrants and refugees who now call the port their home. So shocked was the captain of the Nieuw Amsterdam by what he witnessed...

On Sunday, a police immigration unit in northern Greece arrested an Albanian national for attempting to traffic migrants down the Egnatia highway. The 27-year-old man, suspected of being a member of a migrant trafficking ring, was driving a lorry in...

A total of 237 undocumented migrants and three human traffickers were intercepted within 24 hours in several incidents in eastern Aegean Sea islands, the Greek Coast Guard said on Friday. The three suspects were arrested when they allegedly attempted to...

AP - Greek authorities say three people have been injured during a confrontation between the coast guard and smugglers trying to ferry migrants from Turkey to an eastern Aegean Sea island. A coast guard statement says the smugglers ignored orders...

Six undocumented migrants, four men, a woman and a child, that were rescued during the night by two merchant vessels 160 nautical miles off Paleohora coast, Crete, in the sea waters of Malta, were transferred by a Super Puma...

Greek Coast Guard forces in the eastern Aegean sea have been put on high-level alert in order to deal with an increase in migration flow in the area. This is a result of the increased armed conflict in Syria and Iraq,...

One hundred and forty five undocumented migrants were rescued by Greek Coast Guard vessels on Monday morning in several incidents in the sea region of the eastern Aegean Sea. 52 migrants were rescued north of Samos, 46 east of Chios,...

ATHENS (AP) — Greek authorities say coast guards have rescued dozens of migrants found trying to make their way from the nearby Turkish coast to Greek islands in the eastern Aegean Sea. The Coast Guard said it rescued 77 migrants...