Greek leader convening security officials over migrant spike

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is convening a meeting of his top security officials for Saturday to discuss a spike in migrant arrivals to the country's eastern Aegean islands from the nearby Turkish coast.

The session of the government council on foreign affairs and defense was announced Friday, hours after Greek authorities and aid groups said hundreds of people had reached the island of Lesvos in more than a dozen dinghies in a single afternoon.

The coast guard confirmed that 13 boats carrying a total of 546 people arrived on Lesvos in the space of about an hour on Thursday, while another 32 people in another boat were rescued at sea and transported to Lesvos. A further 65 were rescued in two separate incidents off the island of Kos and the northern mainland town of Alexandroupolis.

Hundreds of people continue to head to Greece from Turkey each...