The authorities are investigating the shooting incident on Saturday afternoon in Soufli, Evros, that injured a 54-year-old border guard, it was reported on Sunday.
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A border guard who was injured after being shot by unknown assailants from the Turkish side on Saturday afternoon in Soufli, Evros, is now hospitalized and out of danger, it was reported on Sunday.
The Cypriot government plans to remove the 14-kilometer-long barbed wire fence along the Green Line, it was reported by Deutsche Welle on Friday.
They compete under the same flag but speak different languages and come from different parts of the world. After fleeing war and persecution at home, 37 athletes from 11 countries will compete in the Paris Games as part of the Refugee Olympic Team.
A speedboat carrying 30 to 40 passengers, believed to be undocumented migrants, fled to the Turkish coast after being chased by the Greek coastguard east of Rhodes Island in the eastern Aegean early Tuesday.
The head of the UN migration agency said Thursday it has taken in hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding and diversified its donor base – an announcement that comes as aid groups have struggled to get needed money.
Greece’s Coast Guard said on Thursday it had rescued 22 migrants from an islet east of Leros, in the southeastern Aegean.
A first-instance court in Mytilini, Lesvos, convicted 21 people for an April 2018 attack against migrants camping in Sappho Square in Mytilini.
A life raft carrying migrants crashed into rocks off Turkey’s Aegean coastal town of Cesme on Tuesday, killing seven people on board, the Turkish coast guard said.
Three men who were put on trial on charges that they locked 13 refugees and migrants in a transport trailer during the disastrous fires in Evros in northeastern Greece last September, and filmed them, accusing them of being arsonists, have been released.
A fishing boat carrying nearly 300 migrants to Europe has safely reached a southern Greek island after a large rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea, Greek authorities said Monday.
Greek coast guard exchanges shots with a man piloting a migrant smuggling boat. No injuries reported
A Greek coast guard patrol boat’s crew exchanged gunfire Friday with a man piloting a speedboat trying to smuggle migrants from neighboring Turkey to a Greek island, authorities said.
Poland hopes to bring in border guards and police from Finland, Germany and Greece to help patrol its frontier with Belarus, a senior official said on Thursday, amid mounting concerns over migration pressures from the east into Europe.
The owners of a complex of rented rooms, where refugees and migrants were accommodated, in Vrasna, Thessaloniki, were handed a suspended 2.5-year prison sentence over the death in April 2019 of a 4-year-old refugee boy who was crushed while playing next to a sliding metal door.
Greek authorities discovered 22 young men on Trypiti Beach in Gavdos, Greece’s southernmost island, Thursday afternoon.
Greek coastguard officers will testify as suspects as part of a disciplinary investigation into their role in a deadly migrant shipwreck off Greece, three sources told Reuters on Thursday.
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