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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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British expats on the island of Rhodes held a peaceful protest opposing Brexit and the so-called “coup” orchestrated by prime minister Boris Johnson to close the UK Parliament ahead of the crucial developments in October. They gathered opposite the Central Port Authority of Rhodes, holding small banners with slogans like …

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An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale rattles the islands of Rhodes and Karpathos in the south-eastern Aegean Sea on Wednesday. The tremor occurred in the sea area between Rhodes and Karpathos at 02:58 early Wednesday afternoon. The epicenter was 46 km North-East of Karpathos and 98km South-West of …

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In two separate incidents, three youngsters drowned in swimming pools of hotels on the islands of Rhodes and Crete on a single day. An 8-year-old child drowned in the swimming pool of a hotel in Hersonissos on the island of Crete on Wednesday afternoon, the same day where two teenager …

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An unprecedented tragedy took place on the island of Rhodes: Two teenager sisters from France were drowned in the swimming pool of the hotel where they were spending their summer vacations with their family. The two French girls, aged 16 and 19, were found dead in the swimming pool short …

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Several hundred tourists had to line under the hot sun waiting for the passport control at the port of the island of Rhodes on Monday. Three tourist boats had arrived at the same time with a total of 600 passengers. Exhausted by the heat, a woman could stand no longer …

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Α Israeli citizen, passenger on a cruse ship sailing off the island of Rhodes in the South-East Aegean Sea, felt sick on Thursday morning. His transport ta hospital was considered necessary. A Super Puma Helicopter of the Greek Air Force was assigned with the transfer of the 88-year-old Israeli man. …

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The bodies of three men were found on two beaches on the island of Rhodes over the weekend, the Greek Coast Guard said in a statement. The first body was found Saturday afternoon on Afantou beach on the eastern side of the island. A Turkish phone card was found in …

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Stormy winds blowing with intensity up to 11 and 12 Beaufort caused several problems on the island of Rhodes in the south-east Aegean Sea on Tuesday night. Trees were uprooted, traffic signs flew through the air, shop windows broke and huge waves flooded the harbor area. Due to nature’s force, …

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The sky over the islands of Crete and Rhodes in the south Aegean Sea has been covered with billions of Sahara dust particles coming from North Africa. While large parts of Greece are dealing with huge volumes of rain, Crete and Rhodes have been under attack by billions of particles …

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