October 16, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The bodies of two women and two infants, aged 3 and 5 years, were recovered from the sea off the island of Kos on Wednesday, after a boat carrying migrants from Turkey to Greece sank late on Tuesday night. Another six people were also picked up alive from the sea …
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August 22, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Angry residents on the island of Leros in the eastern Aegean Sea prepared an anything but warm welcome for the controversial Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis. Frustrated about the deterioration of the public health care system and the severe personnel shortages in hospitals, they called him a “clown”, “depraved” and a …
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July 1, 2024
environment, FEATURED
A wildfire has been raging uncontrollable on the island of Kos with the flames threatening houses and hotels in the wider area of Kardamena. Municipalit authorities call on residents of Kos to collect essential items such as water and food for the evacuees. With sms sent via the emergency line …
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June 22, 2023
Society, Very Mix
Prosecuting authorities on Thursday noon with manslaughter, the main suspect for the violent death of Polish hotel worker Anastazja Rubinsky on the island of Kos. The 32-year-old man from Bangladesh was initially charged with kidnapping on Wednesday. However, authorities charged him in addition with manslaughter after a new video from …
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June 21, 2023
Society, Very Mix
The 32-year-old man from Bangladesh, who is accused of kidnapping 27-year-old Polish national Anastazja Rubinski on the island of Kos remanded in custody after a two-hour testimony on Wednesday. Hotel worker Anastazjia went missing on Monday and was found dead on Sunday afternoon in the Alykes area. The 32-year-old …
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June 18, 2023
Society, Very Mix
The body of the 27-year-old missing Anastasia Rubinska, a hotel worker from Poland was found in Alykes area on the island of Kos on Sunday afternoon.The young woman was missing since last Monday, June 15. Her body was found in reeds in an area with salt marshes. The area is …
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June 16, 2023
FEATURED, Society
A 32-year-old man was arrested on the island of Kos, as the main suspect in the disappearance of 27-year-old Polish national Anastasia-Patricia Rubinska, who have been missing since Monday, June 12. The woman was working at a hotel on Kos and was living together with her boy friend, also a …
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June 6, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 63-year-old woman died on the back of a farm pick up truck on the way to the Kos hospital as there was no ambulance to take her there. The woman was attending the birthday party of her granddaughter when she collapsed on Sunday, June 4. Her family called the …
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February 3, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The Greek Coast Guard has announced it stopped two speedboats carrying a total of 37 migrants off the island of Kos and arrested three alleged Turkish nationals traffickers on Thursday night. Video released by the Greek Coast Guard Both boats ignored warnings to stop and tried to ram Coast Guard …
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June 17, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A German national was arrested on the island of Kos in the early morning hours of Friday. Against the 30-year-old man there was an international arrest warrant for participating in a far-right extremist organization. German police officers had traveled to Greece to arrest him and th eoperation was carried out …
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May 8, 2022
Society, Very Mix
One hundred and six migrants, including 20 children, were located by the Greek Coast Guard in a rocky area northwest of the island of Kos late on Saturday.Kos and were transferred to the Kos Identification Center. A sailing boat was found to have half-sunk on the shore where the migrants …
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October 31, 2021
Politics, Refugees
375 migrants on board of a Turkish-flagged cargo ship disembarked at the port of the island of Kos in the early morning hours of Sunday and were transferred to the local Reception and Identification Migrant Center, Greece’s Migration and Asylum ministry said in a statement on Sunday. A woman had …
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March 27, 2021
Refugees
Refugees in the camp in Corinth, northern Peloponnese staged widespread protests on Saturday, following the suicide of a Kurdish asylum seeker. Protesters set up mattresses and other flammable material on fire and threw stones and other items at the fire fighters and police officers who rushed to the camp, local …
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November 12, 2020
FEATURED, Tourism
The UK has placed mainland Greece placed on quarantine list. Travellers returning to the UK from mainland Greece will have to self-isolate for two weeks from 4am this Saturday. Only the islands of Corfu, Crete, Rhodes, Zakynthos and Kos remain exempt from quarantine rules. Travellers returning to the UK from …
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October 1, 2020
Earthquake
An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale rattled the island of Nisyros and the islands of the Dodecanese five minutes after 2 o’ clock Thursday noon. The earthquake epicenter was located in the sea area 32 km North-West of the island of Nisyros. Its focal depth was 150.7 km. …
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August 4, 2020
Refugees
Greece will build three controlled-access refugee and migrants facilities on the islands of Samos, Kos and Leros in eastern Aegean Sea. For this purpose the European Union has approved 130 million euros. At the same time, Greece continues decongestion of the islands camps, while refugee and migrants flows have significantly …
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June 29, 2020
Tourism
Two days before the official premier of the re-opening of Greece’s regional airports, the first international flight will land on the island of Kos on Monday, June 29. On board of the special TUI flight from Germany will be 170 doctors and nurses. The trip of the German doctors to …
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April 2, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Heath and local authorities are urging residents on the island of Mykonos to stay at home, after the first case of coronavirus was confirmed on Thursday. 69-year-old woman was transported from Mykonos to a designated hospital in Athens earlier on Thursday. The woman was initially in the health center of …
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March 11, 2020
Greece
A serious incident took place in the early morning hours of Wednesday, when a Turkish Coast Guard boat attacked a vessel of the Greek Coast Guard off the island of Kos, in the eastern Aegean Sea. “Intentionally with the purpose to ram it,” says Greece and summons the Turkish ambassador …
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November 25, 2019
Very Mix
Roads in the city of Rhodes and in villages turned into rivers when storm “Geryon” hit the island in the south Dodecanese early Monday evening. One woman with disabilities was found dead in her flooded home in Ialyssos. Local authorities urge citizens to not move around. The 75-year-old woman died in …
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