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2023 Messenia migrant boat disaster. On 14 June 2023, an Italy-bound rusty, aging, overloaded fishing trawler smuggling migrants sank in international waters in the part of the Mediterranean known as the Ionian Sea, off the coast of Pylos, Messenia, Greece. [6] [7] [8] The boat, named Adriana, [a] which had a capacity of 400 people [9] carried ...
May 16, 2024 at 8:59 AM. ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece rescued 42 migrants off the island of Crete and was looking for three believed to be missing after their boat sent a distress signal while at sea ...
After 57 people were killed in Greece's worst train disaster a year ago, the government promised to fix a system crumbling from decades of neglect. "Trains will resume operations with safety at ...
April 10, 2024 at 4:09 AM. ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece rescued 14 migrants including eight children from a rocky shore on the island of Chios, the coastguard said on Wednesday, adding that search ...
History. For the first half of the twentieth century, immigration mostly flowed outwards from Greece. At the turn of the century, the majority of Greek immigrants migrated to the United States; from the 1950s to the 1970s, migration flowed towards other European countries, mainly the Federal Republic of Germany, where there was a labor shortage in the rebuilding process after the second world war.
Widespread strikes in Greece halted trains, ferries and much of the capital's public transport on Wednesday in protests timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the country's deadliest rail ...
May 21, 2024 at 7:55 AM. KALAMATA, Greece (AP) — A Greek judge dismissed a case Tuesday against nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants last year and ...
Greece has suffered a relentless two months of climate change-related weather, including record-breaking rainfall and devastating wildfires. See the effects.