March 12, 2023
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
The first charter flight arrived on Saturday at the “Diagoras” airport of Rhodes, bringing the first tourists of the season to the island, kicking off the tourism season 2023.. The first international flight from Luton airport in London landed on the island short before 12 noon and the plane was …
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January 25, 2023
Earthquake, FEATURED, Society
Greece’s Geodynamics Institute of the National Observatory of Athens corrected the magnitude of the earthquake off the island of Rhodes to 5.9 on the richter scale, from 5.7R initially. The earthquake recorded at 14:37 in the sea southeast of Lindos on Rhodes raised concern among the residents but no damages …
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January 2, 2023
Tourism, Travel
Rhodes welcomed its first cruise ship of the year on Sunday, January 1, 2023. MSC’s ‘Lirica’ brought 1,787 tourists to the popular island in the south-eastern Aegean Sea. The passengers were welcomed at the island at 10:00 a.m. with a brief ceremony onboard the cruise ship for the exchange of …
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November 21, 2022
Society, Very Mix
The tragedy on the island of Rhodes, where a caregiver killed an elderly bed-ridden woman took an unexpected turn on Monday afternoons when she told police that she had killed to more elderly she was taking care of and had attempted to also kill her infant child. Monday morning the …
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October 26, 2022
Turkey-GR
Τhe spokesman of Turkey ‘s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party condemned Greece over its “barbaric” treatment of the cultural legacy of the Ottoman Empire over alleged plans by authorities on the island of Rhodes to turn the Mosque of Murat Reis into a conservatory. “Greek authorities’ systematic policy …
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September 9, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Two hotel owners alleged to be involved in a human trafficking ring that brought migrants from Turkey to Greece were arrested on Friday by Police on the island of Rhodes, with the assistance of the Protection of the Sea Borders Security Directorate, the police of the Dodecanese and the EUROPOL. …
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September 6, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A man missing on the island of Rhodes since end of August was found dead on Tuesday morning. Police arrested two Greek men. The missing man was murdered by a local hotelier in possible cooperation with his son. The 46-year-old contractor of Albanian origin, Tzani Topali, father of three minor …
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August 29, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
Rhodes expects to have tourists in the island’s hotels right up to November 15, with relatively high occupancy rates, Rhodes municipal councilor Thanassis Vyrinis told state-run news agency amna on Sunday. He expressed satisfaction with the tourism season on the island so far, stressing it broke all previous records. Vyrinis …
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August 10, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A tragedy is unfolding off Rhodes where dozens of people are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank 38 nautical miles south of the island in the eastern Aegean Sea. So far, 29 people have been rescued, another 50 are missing. A Search and Rescue operation was launched by the …
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July 24, 2022
animals, FEATURED
A diver on the island of Rhodes managed to bring a sea turtle back to life with mouth-to-mouth respiration. His efforts that lasted hours resulted success and the sea turtle returned to its natural habitat. The unprecedented incident took place at the beach of Gennadi when the sea turtle was …
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July 10, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
Talking about state extremism: Turkey wants half of the Aegean Sea including all islands in the East, the whole Dodecanese as well as the island of Crete. Erdogan’s government partner, far-right nationalist Devlet Bahceli (MHP) presented on Saturday a map of Turkey’s revisionist plan called “Blue Motherland” extended to a …
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June 3, 2022
Earthquake, FEATURED, Society
An earthquake shook the island of Rhodes with a magnidute of 4.7 on the Richter scale at 6:48 early Friday evening. The earthquake epicenter was located in the sea areas 16 km West-South-West of Katavia and its focal depth was 17.5 km. The tremor was felt in the south of …
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May 22, 2022
Society, Very Mix
The Greek Coast Guard successfully carried out a search and rescue operation with two of its vessels north-east off the island of Rhodes on Sunday, rescuing 21 migrants from a sinking dinghy. Adverse weather conditions were in the area during the SAR operation, with winds blowing with intensity of 6 …
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May 20, 2022
Archeology, Culture
A gold sealing ring from the Mycenaean times, depicting a pair of sphinxes, was returned to Greece by the Nobel Foundation, in a ceremony held on Thursday, May 19 in Stockholm, the Culture Ministry in Athens announced. The ring was found in 1927, during the excavations of the Italian Archaeological …
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May 4, 2022
animals, FEATURED
A Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) was found dead at Kremasti beach on the island of Rhodes island on Monday, the Energy Ministry announced on Wednesday. First autopsy showed that the 5.3-meter-long mammal had swallowed over 15 kilos of plastic waste something that led to its death. Veterinarians and marine …
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May 3, 2022
animals, FEATURED
Mayor of Rhodes Antonis Kampourakis recently proposed to the Municipality Council the “controlled deer hunting” as well as a sterilization program for the animals that now exist in large numbers, as he claims, even though there is no sutdy to confirm that. The proposal triggered the outrage by environmental organization …
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April 5, 2022
environment, FEATURED
A forest fire is raging on the island of Rhodes near the village Soroni on Tuesday and there is fear the blaze could get out of control due to strong winds blowing in the area. The blaze on Rhodes is only one of the three forest fires raging on Tuesday. …
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March 23, 2022
Social, Society
A 73-year-old man on the island of Rhodes has confessed to police the sexual abuse of his 49-year-old daughter, who has an intellectual disability. Police had taken the man in for questioning to answer allegations of rape, sexual abuse of a person with intellectual disability and incest. According to daily …
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February 14, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
A 30-year-old hotelier on the island of Rhodes started a hunger-strike outside the Public Power Company due to exorbitant electricity bills that she is not able to pay or to make an installement-settlement. Speaking to local newspaper rodiaki, the woman who has a small hotel in the center of the …
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February 14, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A 35-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman were handed a suspended 14-month prison term and fined 3,000 euros each by a court in Rhodes for not sending their 8-year-old child to primary school due to the pandemic. The parents were convicted of violating the law on compulsory attendance at kindergarten, …
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