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Migrants drown off Greece
Athens :: Greece | about 1 month ago
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A boat carrying migrants sank near the Greek island of Lesvo this morning, killing eight people including women and children, a local official said. "A boat containing 19 people crashed into the rocks and sank," Lesvos prefect Pavlos Vogiatzis told Flash...
Tags: Greece, Lesvos, Greek Coast Guard, Greek Island, Aegean Sea, small boat, Turkey, immigrant drowned, boat sinks, illegal immigrant
Two freight ships collide in Aegean Sea
Ankara :: Turkey | 5 months ago
Credibility A statement by the Turkish Maritime Undersecretary said that the Malta-registered "Marti Princess" and the German-flagged "Renate Schulte" ships collided off Bozcaada island on Saturday night. A total of 35 seamen on board the two vessels were in good...
Tags: Aegean Sea, ship collide
Tension rises between Greece, Turkey
Athens :: Greece | 5 months ago
Credibility Greece foreign minister said Monday that Athens was concerned about increasing tension in its relations with neighboring Turkey over military flights in the Aegean Sea. Greece and Turkey have been at odds for years over airspace boundaries and flight...
Tags: unemployment rate, Turkey, Aegean Sea
Greece protests oil research vessel in Aegean
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility Greece on Saturday protested over the presence of a Norwegian-flagged oil research vessel, escorted by a Turkish frigate, in the southern Aegean Sea and the vessel has halted is activities, the foreign ministry said. The "Malene Ostervold" on behalf...
Tags: Greece, Greek Foreign Ministry, Aegean Sea, Turkish
Turkey arrests 38 illegal immigrants on Aegean Sea waters
Ankara :: Turkey | about 1 year ago
Credibility Turkish coast guard teams Sunday arrested 38 illegal immigrants, who were claimed to have been caught by Greek security forces in the Aegean Sea but left to Turkish territorial waters, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. A Turkish fishing...
Tags: illegal immigrants, Turkish Coast Guard, coast guard, Turkey, Aegean Sea
Ship runs aground, passengers evacuated
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility A Greek ferry that hit a rocky islet in the Aegean on Saturday managed to sail safely to shore after being escorted by dozens of Coast Guard boats, planes and helicopters, the Greek Merchant Marine Ministry said. Rescuers rushed to the ship, Theofilos,...
Tags: runs aground, Aegean sea, Aegean Sea, passenger ship, ship runs, ran aground, rocky islet
First Greek gay weddings spark judicial war
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility Authorities on the small Aegean island of Tilos early on Tuesday officiated over the first same-sex civil marriages ever held in Greece, the local mayor and one of the newlyweds said. �The ceremony took place this morning,� Tilos mayor Anastasios...
Tags: same-sex, marriage, gay, lesbian, Greeceï, Tilos Island, Aegean Sea, gay wed, Evangelia Vlami, aegean island
Russian naval vessel issues distress call in Aegean Sea
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility Greek authorities sent rescue helicopters to help a Russian naval vessel after it issued a distress signal on Monday in the eastern Aegean Sea. According to the Greek Merchant Marine Ministry, two Super-Pumaall-weather helicopters and a Greek navy
Tags: Greek Merchant Marine Ministry, Russian Navy, Greek Mercantile Marine Ministry, naval vessel, Aegean Sea
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