Greece's Samos opens the new tourism season after welcoming a record 100,226 Turkish visitors in 2025, with ferry links from Kusadasi.

Samos, a legendary Greek island steeped in beauty, is found in the eastern Aegean Sea off the coast of Asia Minor (Asian ...

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 ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

This is what I witness on this little Greek island that finds itself on the frontier of Europe. This tiny spot on the map has and continues to be a gateway into Europe for tens of thousands of ...

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 ...

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 and they're trying to find a hotel for Jamil, a ...