Many civilizations have inhabited this small Aegean island, near Asia Minor, since the 3rd millennium B.C. The remains of Pythagoreion, an ancient fortified port with Greek and Roman monuments and a ...

Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.

“I can’t imagine doing an exhibition about anything other than the refugee crisis,” curator Katerina Gregos told a handful of journalists invited by the Schwarz Foundation to visit the group show “A ...

For the past few years Manolis Mantas and his wife Vasilika, a retired Greek couple, have lived on the frontline of Europe's refugee crisis. Their summer house, which they built on the beautiful Greek ...

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British tourists are flocking to a historic Greek island that has all the beauty of Mykonos and Crete, without the crowds. TUI says it is seeing a ‘surge’ in bookings to lesser-known islands as ...

The new facility is one of five being built with EU funds. Rights groups have complained that the Samos camp, with its barbed-wire fences and surveillance cameras, is more like a jail. Greece on ...

Syrians take shelter from the rain in a camp at Samos port The coastguard headquarters in the port of Samos is crowded with UN aid workers, Red Cross staff and an Arabic translator. It's early morning ...

A medical charity working in Greece says it has diagnosed six children living in a migrant facility on the eastern island of Samos as suffering from malnutrition, the first time its doctors have made ...

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