Woken by police to be told that his car had been damaged, Ufuoma Odoh wasn't prepared for the scene that confronted him.

Greece has detained nearly 200 migrants who arrived after an asylum freeze imposed on claimants from North Africa, the ...

Greece’s New Democracy government has suspended asylum applications from North African migrants for three months, amid a 350% surge in arrivals to Crete. The EU-backed measure, part of a broader ...

Roughly as big as Hertfordshire or Surrey, the island of Lesbos – Greece's third largest – sits more than 12 hours by ferry ...

From July 1 to 13, 2,619 migrants landed on Crete, a surge far beyond anything previously experienced on the idyll beloved by ...

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed that Greece will not become an open gateway to Europe, addressing the surge in migrant arrivals on Crete. He pledged emergency measures to block a new ...

Greece freezes asylum claims over migrant 'invasion' from Libya The emergency legislation, approved by a majority of 177 out of 293 lawmakers, allows authorities to detain asylum seekers in camps ...

Greece on Friday enforced a three-month freeze on asylum claims from migrants arriving by boat from North Africa, to stem a surge from Libya that the government has called an "invasion". Plevris -- ...

In a shift in migration policy, Greece is implementing stringent new measures to deter irregular migrant flows, particularly from Libya.

Greece will suspend all asylum hearings for migrants arriving on boats from North Africa for three months, the prime minister ...

Greece has suspended the processing of asylum applications from people arriving by sea from North Africa for three months.

Authorities in Greece say more than 1,200 migrants have been detained on the island of Crete and the nearby islet of Gavdos over the past three days, following a surge in arrivals from Libya.