Britain and France on Monday signed an agreement aimed at fighting against illegal migration via the English Channel, which has long been a point of friction between the two countries. Britain will commit 72.2 million [Read More]
BRUSSELS – Cyprus saw the third largest increase of Ukrainians arriving from their war-torn country in September, according to data released by Eurostat, the statistical service of the EU. New figures show a total of [Read More]
FULL STATEMENT – Below is the full text of an ‘Exceptional Joint statement of Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus on the disembarkation of irregular migrants’. Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus, as the countries of first [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish police have found the bodies of five Afghan nationals who were stabbed to death in a house in the capital Ankara, local media reported Friday. The bodies of the five men were [Read More]
TOULON – After an unprecedented blockage at Europe’s door, the Ocean Viking started disembarking 230 survivors, including more than 55 minors, at the port of Toulon, France, this morning. According to a press release sent [Read More]
Thousands of protesters staged a 24-hour general strike in Athens and other major Greek cities on Wednesday, calling on the government to cope with inflation. The strikes, organized by the unions of Greece’s public and [Read More]
Over the last twelve months, one thousand inmates at the Cypriot immigrant accommodation center at Pournara tested positive for the “AIDS” virus, and another eight hundred had been diagnosed with tuberculosis, according to the Minister [Read More]
Despite repeated requests for the designation a Place of Safety sent to the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres (MRCC) in Malta and Italy, the rescue ship Ocean Viking remains at a dead end, according to SOS [Read More]
Greek rescuers on Wednesday recovered the bodies of 20 migrants who drowned after their boat capsized off the island of Evia in the Aegean Sea the previous day, Greek national news agency AMNA reported. Twelve [Read More]
A man was rescued by a cargo ship after a boat carrying 68 migrants sank near Cape Kafireas, Evia Island, on Tuesday morning. The rescue of the man brings the total number of survivors to [Read More]
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