Greek Coast Guard

A Comoros-flagged cargo ship with 14 people on board has sunk off the island of Lesbos in gale-force winds, the Greek coast guard said Sunday prompting a major rescue operation.

In the video, refugees are shown being driven in a white van to a remote spot on the Aegean island before being forced into a high-speed inflatable boat.

Greece has seized a Russian oil tanker off the island of Evia as part of European Union sanctions imposed on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, the Greek coast guard said on Tuesday.

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) on Monday said it coordinated the rescue of a Greek national who fell off a merchant vessel in the Arabian sea off Lakshadweep.

Greece's coast guard says it has rescued 59 migrants in an inflatable dinghy in rough weather in the Aegean Sea.

Japan is searching for eight Chinese crew members who went missing when their fishing boat sank after colliding with a Greek cargo vessel near disputed East China Sea islands today, the Japanese coast guard said.

Greek authorities say the country's coast guard has picked up 67 migrants found hiding in a sailboat sailing across the Aegean Sea.

He looks peacefully asleep. But the boy, lying on his back on a rocky Turkish beach, is dead - and a soul-searing reminder that Europe's migrant crisis keeps destroying lives and families by the day.

Eleven migrants including six infants drowned when their boat capsized off the Greek island of Samos, trapping most of them in the cabin, the coast guard said on Sunday.

Greece is sending a navy frigate and a helicopter to locate a cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants in the northern Ionian Sea after authorities received a distress call from someone on board the ship, authorities said.

Rescue teams evacuated more than 400 people from a car ferry that caught fire off Greece's Adriatic coast in a 36-hour operation on roiling seas, but 10 people were killed in the disaster.

The death toll in the Greek ferry fire has risen to eight and rescue workers are investigating if more people are still missing, Italian authorities said today.

Hundreds of people were evacuated and two more bodies recovered today from the Greek ferry fire, bringing the total death toll to seven, the Italian coast guard said.

A Comoros-flagged cargo ship with 14 people on board has sunk off the island of Lesbos in gale-force winds, the Greek coast guard said Sunday prompting a major rescue operation.

In the video, refugees are shown being driven in a white van to a remote spot on the Aegean island before being forced into a high-speed inflatable boat.

Greece has seized a Russian oil tanker off the island of Evia as part of European Union sanctions imposed on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, the Greek coast guard said on Tuesday.

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) on Monday said it coordinated the rescue of a Greek national who fell off a merchant vessel in the Arabian sea off Lakshadweep.

Greece's coast guard says it has rescued 59 migrants in an inflatable dinghy in rough weather in the Aegean Sea.

Japan is searching for eight Chinese crew members who went missing when their fishing boat sank after colliding with a Greek cargo vessel near disputed East China Sea islands today, the Japanese coast guard said.

Greek authorities say the country's coast guard has picked up 67 migrants found hiding in a sailboat sailing across the Aegean Sea.

He looks peacefully asleep. But the boy, lying on his back on a rocky Turkish beach, is dead - and a soul-searing reminder that Europe's migrant crisis keeps destroying lives and families by the day.

Eleven migrants including six infants drowned when their boat capsized off the Greek island of Samos, trapping most of them in the cabin, the coast guard said on Sunday.

Greece is sending a navy frigate and a helicopter to locate a cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants in the northern Ionian Sea after authorities received a distress call from someone on board the ship, authorities said.

Rescue teams evacuated more than 400 people from a car ferry that caught fire off Greece's Adriatic coast in a 36-hour operation on roiling seas, but 10 people were killed in the disaster.

The death toll in the Greek ferry fire has risen to eight and rescue workers are investigating if more people are still missing, Italian authorities said today.

Hundreds of people were evacuated and two more bodies recovered today from the Greek ferry fire, bringing the total death toll to seven, the Italian coast guard said.