migrants

A group of 120 migrants were found early Sunday near the island of Kythera in southern Greece after calling for help when their boat took on water, a spokeswoman for the Greek coastguard said. "A sailboat was located at (the...

The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Germany is launching a new program aiming at offering fast-track German language courses for professional purposes and people with an immigrant background who are seeking work or would like to progress...

At least 60 migrants, most of them Palestinian and more than half of them children, died after their overcrowded boat sank just tens of meters off Turkey’s western Aegean coast on Sept. 6, a district official said. Tahsin Kurtbeyoglu, Governor...

Local authorities on the Greek islands of the northeastern Aegean Sea are girding themselves for what is expected to be a growing wave of refugees from war-torn Syria, as measures to reduce the inflow of illegal immigrants via the...

Illegal immigrants are always a key-issue in the social and political life of Greece. The country's borders are too long, the guards few and the authorities cannot deal with the problem and thus, hundreds of illegal immigrants from Pakistan, Iran,...

Greek authorities say supporters of the extreme far-right Golden Dawn group have clashed with police during an anti-immigrant protest in the western port of Patras. Police say the clashes followed a peaceful demonstration by hundreds of local residents outside an...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Athens said on Tuesday that conditions at a new detention center for undocumented migrants that began operating in Amygdaleza, northwest of Greek capital, on Sunday, were better...

Greek detention officers treat migrants "like caged animals", and prison conditions for Greek inmates have deteriorated, the Council of Europe's anti-torture committee said in a report on Tuesday. Publishing a detailed account of a study completed last March but kept...