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With music, dance, local specialties and water arches, Greeks welcomed the first tourists at the regional airports of the country that opened again for international flights on July 1, marking the much anticipated start of the tourist season. At the airport of Rhodes, a local dance and music group entertained …

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An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale occurred at 07:06 on Monday morning shaking the island of Rhodes and the rest of Dodecanese as well as the West coast of Turkey. The tremor occurred 25 km north-northeast of the island of Rhodes with a focal depth of 67.4 km. …

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Good news for the family of the 9-year-old girl that fainted due to hunger in a bakery on the island of Rhodes two days ago. The mother, a jobless hotel worker, was offered a work at an energy company in Athens. She will work from home. She will earn the …

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A 9-year-old girl collapsed inside a bakery beginning of the week and the incident brought to light a tragedy, very possible one of the many currently on the island of Rhodes and in other touristic destinations: unemployment, meager state aid, impoverished and starving people. With a few coins in her …

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An incredible and unusual case with a burglar on the island of Rhodes. A 48-year-old man broke into a restaurant to steal something to eat and then called the police to come and arrest him. The incident took place in the early morning hours of last Friday in the center …

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The Turkish ambassador in Athens was summoned to the Greek Foreign Ministry on Monday and was handed out a demarche, a protest note, about Ankara’s plans to start drilling off the islands of Rhodes, Karpathos and Crete. A few hours earlier, Foreign Affairs Minister, Nikos Dendias, had underlined that Greece …

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Turkey plans to start drilling south of the Greek islands of Crete, Karpathos, Kasos and Rhodes, claiming it is justified to do so according to its maritime boundaries with the Tripolis-based government in Libya. Requests for drilling submitted by the company Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) to the General Directorate of …

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Seismologists in Greece appear reassuring about the intense seismic activity south of the island of Crete. The magnitude of earthquake that stroke at 2:22 a.m. on Tuesday was corrected from initial 5.2 R to 5.7R. Note, that earthquake magnitudes vary due to different seismological stations and institutes. That #earthquake sequence …

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One of the most heinous crimes in Greece: 21-year-old university student Eleni Topaloudi was brutally raped,, tortured and murdered by two young men on the island of Rhodes in November 2018. One and a half years later, justice was served, when a mix jury court in Athens unanimously found both …

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A ship of the Greek Navy arrived at the port of Mytilini in Lesvos on Wednesday morning. The ship will house hundreds of refugees and migrants who arrived on the island after March 1, but they are not allowed to submit asylum application following a recent government decision to temporarily …

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Motorists on the island of Rhodes found not so polite stickers on their cars that they parked illegally. “I’m a donkey and I park where I want,” the stickers read, reminding them that donkeys may b gentle and patient animals but in Greece we also use the word for rude …

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Heavy rain fell on the island of Rhodes and flooded several local rivers and streams on Saturday. The mud waters did not take long and made their way to settlement and villages, thus causing also power outages. It was a matter of time, for streets and roads to turn into …

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Passengers on a flight from Athens to the island of Rhodes experienced tough moments on Friday night. Due to bad weather and powerful winds, the airplane could not land at “Diagoras” airport on the island. The crew reportedly made three attempts to land, however, without success.   Ultimately, the Aegean …

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An earthquake hit with 4.8 Richter the island of Karpathos early Friday evening. Its epicenter was in the maritime area, 39km North-West of the island. The focal depth of the tremor that stroke at 6:02 p.m. was 12.6 km. The tremor was strong and was felt also on the islands …

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A Silver Alert has been issued for a 60-year-old foreign national Diane Davison who went missing on the island of Rhodes last month. According to the brief announcement, the woman went missing from the area of Faliraki on Rhodes in December 2019. The exact date is apparently unknown, however, local …

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Turkey escalates its provocations and inflammatory rhetoric towards Greece by claiming that Greek islands in the East Aegean Sea, in general, and the small island of Kastellorizo, in particular, do not have a continental shelf and therefore are partly within Greek territorial waters. It is the first time, Ankara explicitly …

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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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Greek Police has fined two people with 50 euros each for having violated the smoking ban. The two people were customers in a cafeteria of Ialyssos on the island of Rhodes. A third customer, a lawyer and a non-smoker, called the police after he was disturbed by the cigarette smoke. …

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It was short after 2:30 on Wednesday afternoon when power went out on the islands of Rhodes and Halki, in South Dodecanese. A total black out that has left thousands of households, businesses, hotels and shops without electricity. According to local media, both power plants of the island, in Soroni …

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An earthquake with magnitude 5.1 on Richter scale rattled the island of Rhodes on Thursday morning. The earthquake occurred at 07:45 a.m. Its epicenter was in the sea area 37km South-East off the island. The focal point was 16,8 km. It was of long duration, local media report. Two-three aftershocks …

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