Greek Coast Guard confirms “warning shots” at Turkish cargo ship
The Greek Coast Guard confirmed the incident with the Turkish-flagged cargo ship M/V ACT earlier on Monday. In a statement issued later afternoon, the Greek coast Guard said: Midday Monday, the port...
View ArticleKos Earthquake 6.4R leaves two dead tourists, dozens of injured LIVE reporting
Kos earthquake: Two dead, more than 120 injured, among them 5 in critical condition. Majority of the injured are tourists. Serious damages in the port of the island of Kos after a powerful earthquake...
View ArticleEarthquake 6.4R triggers mini tsunami, floods coastal roads in Greece and Turkey
The powerful earthquake of 6.4R that stroke the island of Kos trigger a tsunami of 70 cm height. the phenomenon has been confirmed by the director of the Geodynamics Institute of the National...
View ArticlePrince Charles and wife Camilla on Corfu vacations at Rothschild Villa
Charles, Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, arrived at the airport of Corfu Wednesday afternoon for their summer vacations. Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall will...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson on Sifnos vacations, while Greeks ask…
One more Hollywood star enjoys Greece’s beauties in summer: sun, sea, picturesque ambiance and … food. Scarlett Johansson arrived on the beautiful island of Sifnos in the Aegean Sea last Saturday for...
View Article25,000 acres burned down as wildfire rages on Kythira for the fourth day
More than 25,000 acres of forest, low vegetation and agricultural land have been burned down as the wildfire rages on the island of Kythira for the fourth consecutive day. Olive groves, bee stocks, and...
View ArticleFull Moon and Eclipse over Sounio, Athens and the Aegean (video, picts)
August 7, 2017: Awesome and rare phenomenon for sky-gazers. Full moon and partial Lunar Eclipse. Fully visible in Greece. The eclipse affected 25% of the lunar disk Part of the moon was already a...
View ArticleWildfire on Kythira under control after 8% of the island burned down
The large wildfire on the island of Kythira has been finally taken under control. However, the damage is immeasurable. At least 8% of the island has been burned down. The wildfire that broke out on...
View ArticleThousands Greeks follow August slogan: Get aboard, sail to the islands
It was short but it was nice. And especially, it was very relaxing. KTG followed the decades-old tradition of mid August and left the boiling city of Athens – like thousands of other Greeks. For the...
View ArticleGreece’s Crazy Girl, actress Zoi Laskari, passed away at 73
She was THE beauty of the golden age of the Greek cinema industry and the country’s ‘Crazy Girl’ after a song she sang in one of her best films. Zoi Laskari. She was found dead in her home in Porto...
View ArticleUPD3 Village on Zakynthos evacuated as raging wildfire has burned down houses
The small village of Anafonitria in the northwest part of the island of Zakynthos is being evacuated as the raging wildfire has been threatening houses and human lives. Already some houses have been...
View ArticleBLUE STAR PATMOS remains aground, inspection to continue Thursday
Ferry BLUE STAR PATMOS ran aground at 01:45 local time August 30th 2017 while entering Ios, Ios island in the Aegean Sea, with 205 passengers and 87 crew members on board. The vessel suffered hull...
View ArticleMysterious red motorcycle spotted amidst Macron’s convoy – What happened?
A mysterious red motorcycle was spotted to drive amid the convoy bringing French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte from Athens airport to the center of Greece’s capital Thursday noon. A...
View ArticlePowerful storm in North-West Greece causes severe damages
A powerful storm swept throughοut north-western Greece on Saturday causing severe damages mainly in agricultural land, turning roads into rivers and squares into lakes. The biggest damages are been...
View ArticleEldorado Gold miners raid and occupy Development Ministry (videos)
A group of ten workers at the Eldorado Gold mines managed to bypass police and entered the Development and Environment Ministry in Athens on Wednesday morning. Miners clashed with riot police when a...
View ArticleFloods and landslides as heavy storm strikes the island of Samothraki
An unprecedented heavy storm. Streets turned into rivers, walls in the City Hall collapsed, the Health Center and several houses and shops have been flooded and the water supply was cut when a storm...
View ArticleCholera bacteria detected in Maternity Hospital in Athens
Cholera bacteria has been detected in one of the biggest public maternity hospitals in downtown Athens. First samples from stagnated water in the basement of the hospital that have been examined in the...
View ArticleUnprecedented hail falls, snow on the mountains, boats swept ashore (videos,...
Snow, hail, temperature drop, rough sea: these are the features of bad weather front Daedalus that is sweeping across the country since the beginning of the week. Snow started to fall on Monday on the...
View ArticleFloods and landslides in Chania as low ‘Daedalus’ strikes Crete (picts, videos)
Homes and shops were flooded, streets turned into rivers, swollen streams and landslides and tons of mud in and around Chania as barometric low Daedalus kept striking the island of Crete early Thursday...
View ArticleExtreme weather phenomena leave Symi without power, strike Rhodes and Nafplio...
Powerful rainstorms with gusty winds, hail-falls and lightening have been striking the islands of Rhodes and Symi in the south-eastern Aegean Sea on Monday. Especially hit is the small remote island...
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