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Migrants rescued in Dadia forest
A group of twenty-five individuals, believed to be undocumented migrants, was discovered in the burning forest of Dadia in Greece's northeastern region near the Turkish border, where a wildfire has been raging for the 14th consecutive day.
Hundreds more migrants reach the Greek islands in boats and smaller vessels from Turkey
More than 450 migrants reached Greece's Aegean Sea islands in boats from Turkey in less than two days, Greek authorities said Thursday, including 51 people who made landfall on the high-end resort of Mykonos.
The new arrivals come amid a steady rise in migration to the European Union country, which officials mostly attribute to better summer sailing conditions.
Greece reinforces firefighting forces as a massive wildfire in the northeast burns for a 13th day
Greek authorities further reinforced firefighting forces in the country's northeast Thursday, where a massive blaze in its 13th day has flared up once more and prompted authorities to alert area residents to be on standby for possible evacuation.
About 150 migrants rescued from two sailboats off western Greece and in the Aegean Sea
About 150 migrants were rescued from overloaded sailboats provided by smugglers in two separate incidents Wednesday far off a western Greek island and off a Cycladic island near the Greek capital, the coast guard said.
Bulgarian Police detained 34 Illegal Migrants at the entrance to Sofia
34 illegal migrants were detained at the entrance to Sofia.
They are Afghans. They traveled for 8 days from Turkey to Bulgaria.
On a charred migrant trail, firefighters find 19 bodies
In the charred Greek landscape close to the border with Turkey, a group of blackened corpses lay amid the ashes of what was once a lush forest that offered migrants the perfect cover to cross into the European Union. Two of the dead found this week were children.
Greek authorities report hundreds of migrant arrivals on islands over the past three days
More than 300 migrants have arrived on Greek islands, most near the Turkish coast, over the past three days in separate incidents reported by the coast guard.
On Thursday, the coast guard said authorities had found 107 people the previous day on the islands of Samos, Mykonos and the tiny island of Ro, which lies in the Mediterranean off the southern coast of Turkey.
Rescuers find 18 burned bodies as wildfires spread
Eighteen burned bodies, possibly of migrants, were found on Tuesday in a rural area in northern Greece where wildfires have been burning out of control for a fourth day, the fire brigade said, as gale force winds fanned blazes across the country.
Authorities rescue nearly 60 migrants on small boats in Aegean Sea
Greek authorities on Saturday rescued nearly 60 migrants in inflatable dinghies trying to cross from Turkey to the nearby eastern Aegean Sea islands in two separate incidents, the coast guard said.
In recent weeks Greece has seen a rise in such arrivals, mostly in small unseaworthy boats provided by smugglers.
Bulgarian Police found 80 Illegal Migrants in a Truck on Trakia Highway
80 illegal migrants were found in a truck with Turkish registration on the Trakia highway.
The truck was stopped in the morning shortly before 5 o'clock by a patrol of the gendarmerie department in Plovdiv.
ND criticizes Velopoulos for spreading ‘fake news’
Ruling New Democracy has accused Kyriakos Velopoulos, the leader of the populist nationalist Greek Solution party, of disseminating "fake news" concerning Greece's border fence intended to prevent illegal migration along the Evros border with Turkey.
A digital ‘atlas’ of the refugee imprint in Greece
Is the trauma of displacement enduring? What is its impact - on the economy, on electoral behavior, on art - even decades later? How is a society affected when it suddenly needs to take in a large number of refugees?
UK announces deal with Turkey to tackle flow of illegal migrants
Britain said it had struck a deal with Turkey in a bid to slow the flow of illegal immigrants passing through the Mediterranean country on their way to Europe, including joint police operations against smuggler rings and the trade in boat parts.
Suspected illegal adoption racket under investigation
Authorities on Crete are investigating a fertility clinic in the city of Hania amid suspicions that it may have operated as a front for an illegal adoption racket.
In the past 2 months: Authorities foiled nearly 47,000 Attempts to enter Bulgaria Illegally
The intensified work to combat the illegal trafficking of migrants has achieved results in the past two months, reports the Ministry of the Interior. After the operations ordered by the Minister of the Interior, Kalin Stoyanov, to counteract the flow of migrants passing through Bulgaria, only for the period June 1 - July 31, 46,940 attempts to cross the Bulgarian-Turkish border were prevented.