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The Greek Coast Guard conducted a rescue operation off the coast of the South East Aegean island of Rhodes after a boat carrying 70 migrants and refugees capsized on Monday, the Associated Press reports. None of the passengers were reported injured. The...

While deliberations on the Cyprus problem are about to recommence, the Turkish Army has just put out a video of 4 minutes of unreleased footage from the July 1974 invasion. Turkish Hurriyetdailynews shows the 4-minute-long footage containing shots of the...

A four-year-old Syrian girl drowned off the coast of Turkey during her family’s effort to reach Greece, the Anadolu Agency reports. The unidentified girl was found at a beach in the city of Cesme after the boat she was on sank. A Turkish search...

Greek merchandise exports are expected to fall in 2015, the Federation of Northern Greece Exporters (SEBE) said on Wednesday. In a report, SEBE said that the introduction of capital controls in the country deteriorated an already burdened situation in...

Migrants and refugees who were stopped from reaching Turkey's northern border with Greece on Tuesday, have not yet left the Turkish city of Edirne, the AFP reports. Turkish authorities had blocked the group from moving further west from Edirne, which lies 17 kilometres away from the Greek...

Turkish authorities collected around 200 migrants and refugees traveling aboard a wooden 20-meter boat that capsized. At least 22 people, including 4 children and 11 women lost their lives off the south-western coast of Turkey in the wreck. The boat...

The exodus of thousands of refugees continues with no end in sight. Those victims of human insanity hand over their life savings to smugglers to show them the way to the land of milk and honey. We see war refugees,...

A man, who resides in neighboring Turkey, will travel to Greece within the month to undergo DNA testing in his effort to confirm his suspicions that he might be a Greek Cypriot that was kidnapped as a child by the...

Caretaker Finance Minister Nikos Christodoulakis on Thursday said islands receiving the bulk of migrants will be economically supported. During a press conference on the refugee issue, Christodoulakis noted that officials of the Economy ministry will be transferred to to the Migration...

A Bolivian-flagged cargo ship was escorted to Heraklion port, Crete, on Tuesday night around 4:30 am after a container with an unknown quantity of undeclared weapons was discovered on board during a Greek coast guard inspection. The ship "Hadat 1" had...