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First Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans said cooperation with Turkey is important, and asked whether the EU achieved anything regarding human rights and the situation of the...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said that 181,476 refugees and migrants entered Europe through the Mediterranean Sea in 2016 while 1,232 drowned on route as of 13 April....

The random crackdown and the sexualised way in which it occurs, is intended to threaten the volunteers - predominantly women.

The British government announced yesterday its intention to take in 3,000 Syrian refugees, all of them minors, who are currently in refugee camps in countries neighbouring Syria. "Taking in...

Pope Francis was greeted Saturday on the Greek island of Lesbos by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Patriarch Bartholomew, and the head of the Greek Orthodox Church Ieronymos amid tight...

At dawn today, the first 136 people, mainly Pakistanis, were deported to Turkey from Lesvos in Greece. To the sound of volunteers, aid workers and activists shouting about the...

Today at Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, the asylum system is on its knees; deportations have halted all processes of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO),...

Refugees have staged a protest at Idomeni refugee camp near Greece’s border with Macedonia during a visit to the camp by the ambassadors of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Sweden’s...

Turkey is preparing to receive 72,000 illegal immigrants who have been deported from Greece. Turkish Akhbar Turkiya newspaper reported that the Immigration Department will construct a centre for the...

Refugees in Moria on the island of Lesvos are now being relocated to mainland Greece in preparation for their deportation, having been stuck for weeks since the closure of...

Turkey will not re-admit refugees who have already reached Greece under a deal agreed with the EU earlier this week, EU Minister Volkan Bozkir said Thursday. “Turkey's readmission proposal...

I am talking to Muhammad* from Iraq; a father of two, he lost a third child on the way to Lesbos on board a dangerous rubber dinghy. He is...

Austrian Federal Minister at the Chancellery for Arts, Culture, Media and Civil Servants Josef Ostermayer has called to grant refugees stranded in the Greek islands transit visas to guarantee...

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has described the current rapprochement between Israel and Greece as an “unjustified retreat” in Athens’ position on the Palestinians, Quds...

UK lawyer Yasin Din, who is working with a humanitarian aid convoy on the Greek island of Mytilene to help refugees, has appealed to the international community to pressure...

More than half a million refugees and migrants have arrived in Greece this year so far, said the UN refugee agency on Tuesday, warning of the possible failure of...

Turkish coast guards have rescued 330 Syrian refugees in the Aegean Sea after failing to reach Greece as the number of immigrants attempting to reach Europe increases. Members of...

Today marks the UN World Day against Human Trafficking. This modern-day slavery spins an estimated $32-billion industry worldwide, exploiting 20.9 million global trafficking victims, 1.2 million of whom are...

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and his Greek counterpart Panos Kammenos have signed a security cooperation agreement between the two countries. This came during a meeting on Sunday between...

The International Committee to Break the Siege of Gaza, which is a founding member of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, has confirmed that the Greek port authorities are hindering a...

Media personality Moataz Matar has revealed the publication of a famous Greek site which reports on the gains obtained by Greece as a result of the tripartite agreement between...

The tripartite meeting held yesterday between the foreign ministers of Egypt, Greece and Cyprus was not aimed at forming an alliance against Turkey, the Ambassador of Cyprus in Cairo...

The Italian authorities have returned 63 illegal Syrian immigrants to Greece who tried to enter the country, Italian ANSA news agency reported Tuesday. The agency said "the immigrants arrived...

The governments of Israel and Greece have held discussions about the implications of Turkey's decision to increase its military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean to ensure free passage for...

The government in Tehran has announced that it has halted oil exports to Greece and Spain, and confirmed that it is looking into taking similar action against Italy and...

On the eve of his visit to Israel, Greek President Karolos Papoulias spoke of the "strong relationship in all aspects" between his country and the Zionist state. The fact...