Greece sent in police and bulldozers yesterday to knock down tents and relocate hundreds of migrants
An EgyptAir jet carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean south of Greece on Thursday, with Athens saying the plane swerved in mid-air ...
Greece must regulate and improve conditions for thousands of migrants — many of them children
A controversial EU-Turkey deal dramatically cut the number of migrant arrivals in Greece last month, data showed on Friday, even as a row between Brussels and Ankara threatened to sink the agreement.
Greece and its international lenders have made progress in negotiations on economic reforms, a Greek government official said yesterday, but a final accord needed to unlock badly needed bailout loans remained elusive.
Greek island officials have begun letting migrants leave detention centres where they have been held
Pope Francis wants to take back to the Vatican a number of refugees after his landmark visit Saturday to the island of Lesbos, an official of Greece's state refugee coordination agency said.
Around 700 migrants have agreed to leave a squalid camp on Greece's border with Macedonia since violence broke out at the weekend when a group of migrants tried to storm the frontier, sources said Tuesday.
Dozens of migrants and refugees were wounded yesterday when Macedonian police fired tear gas
At least 260 people were hurt Sunday when police fired tear gas at migrants as they tried to break through the Greek-Macedonia border, where over 11,000 people are stranded, a charity said.
Pope Francis will make a lightning trip to the Greek island of Lesbos on April 16, the Vatican said on Thursday, in a visit aimed at supporting refugees and drawing attention to the front line of Europe's migrant crisis.
Flights in Greece were at a standstill on Thursday after air traffic controllers called a 24-hour strike over pension reforms sought by the country's creditors.
