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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June 27, 2024
FEATURED, Tourism
The General Secretariat of Civil Protection declared the island of Leros in the Dodecanese in a “state of emergency” due to the occurrence of water shortage phenomena. The state of emergency is valid for one month. In the decision, signed by the General Secretary of Civil Protection, Vassilis Papageorgiou, it …
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August 25, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Prominent Turkish businessman Ali Sabanci and his wife, Vuslat Dogan Sabanci, sustained serious injuries in a maritime incident near Leros island in the Dodecanese while on vacation, media report on Friday. According to information, the couple was going with their children from the island of Lipsi to a restaurant in …
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February 5, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Three children and a young woman died when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the island of Leros early Sunday morning. The body of the woman, estimated age 17-20, was found floating in the water. The children, two boys aged 5 and a 4-year-old girl, were alive but in serious …
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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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November 21, 2019
Greece
Local authorities on the islands of Samos, Chios and Leros are up in arms less than 24 hours after the government announced the opening of five pre-departure centers on the five Aegean islands with capacities mostly exceeding the number of refugees and migrants currently been hosted there. Local authorities speak …
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November 3, 2019
Politics, Refugees
Giannitsa, Serres, Kos, Leros… No a day passes without local communities to protest the resettlement of refugees and migrants to the Greek mainland or from one island to another. Residents of Paralimni by Giannitsa in North Greece blocked the roads to prevent refugees to settle in local hotels. A day …
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August 23, 2019
environment
Forest fires are burning on the island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea and on the island of Leros in the Aegean on Friday. Two villages were evacuated on Corfu and the hospital on Leros. Corfu The fire broke out in Kritika by Leykimi and near the villages Nerochori and …
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August 16, 2018
Turkey-GR
Turkish fishermen have apparently found a new way to harass and bully their Greek colleagues: they shoot at them. After the incident near the island of Leros, another similar incident comes to the news, this time near the island of Samothraki in the Northern Aegean Sea. The chairman of fishermen …
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August 13, 2018
Turkey-GR
Greek fishermen have denounced that Turkish fishermen fired shots at them near the island of Leros in the Dodecanese in Greek territorial waters. Nobody was hurt in the incident that took place off the islet of Kalapodi, some 300 meters from the shores of Leros on Sunday morning. Speaking to …
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July 10, 2018
Greece, Politics
Migration Minister, Dimitris Vitsas, dismissed dress reports that new hot spots will be established on the islands or that asylum seekers returns from Germany will be place on the five islands. In a letter to the mayors of the islands that have received the majority of refugees and migrants, that …
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June 1, 2018
Social
Gathered outside the Justice building in Zakynthos, relatives and friends applaud and cheer “Bravo!”, “Alexis, we stand by you”, “We love you”, “Congratulations” as police helps a young man in handcuffs out of a car and takes him to prosecutor. “I am proud of my brother,” his step-sister told local …
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July 11, 2016
Very Mix
Tension went high on the island of Leros in the Eastern Aegean Sea, when a group of migrants protested the living conditions in the hot spot saying they were fearing for their lives. The protest got out of control when a small group went so far to attack the police …
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November 23, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
Was the third suicide bomber in the Stade de France the same person that was registered as refugee in Greece on October 3rd? On Sunday, French police published a picture of a suspect suicide bomber in connection with the Paris attacks. The French are seeking information about the suspect thus …
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November 15, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
During a press conference on Sunday afternoon, Alternate Minister for Migration Yiannis Mouzalas confirmed that one man identified by the French as terrorist passed through Greece. Ahmad Al Mohammad, 25, was one of the suicide bombers in Stade de France, he blew himself up and the passport was found near …
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November 15, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
Greek and Serbian media revealed on Sunday the names of two men suspected to have been ISIS members who triggered the horrible Paris carnage on Friday night. The two men are believed to have traveled from Syria to Europe through Turkey and into Greece in early October. One of them …
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November 15, 2015
Very Mix
US intelligence sources told a US broadcaster that the Syrian passport found in Paris attack site was probably fake. “The passport passport number did not correspond to legitimate Syrian passports and the picture did not match the name,” the sources stressed. While it is still not clear whether the passport …
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January 23, 2014
Very Mix
Contradictory claims from the side of the illegal migrants and the Greek coast guard have alerted the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Human Rights commissioner at the Council of Europe. Who is to blame for the tragedy off Farmakonisi islet, when a boat carrying undocumented migrants from Turkey …
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January 21, 2013
Society
A newborn baby was taken from the island of Leros to University Hospital of Heraklion in Crete in an emergency airborne transfer on Saturday. According to local media, doctors diagnosed hypothermia, breathing problems and symptoms of starvation, while the organs have been collapsing. The baby was born on December 15th 2012 …
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