Kos

The number of charter flights to six regional airports in Greece has dropped by 2%, according to Greek Travel Pages (GTP) quoting a report released by the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (HCAA). The local airports of Rhodes, Chania, Heraklion, Thessaloniki, Corfu and Kos...

Migration in crisis-stricken Greece is an issue of concern which has been recurrently coming to the forefront in different guises. The last few months, however, the flow of undocumented immigrants has eluded all limits and Greek coast guard officials do not know how...

Over 42,000 migrants arrived by sea in Greece during the first five months of 2015, with the majority of them being refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Eritrea, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The influx of migrants on the...

Greek coast guard rescued 213 migrants in six different incidents near the islands of Kos, Chios and Lesvos during the night. All migrants are safe and well, and no missing persons have been reported. In recent months there has been...

"Almost 1,200 migrants - some crammed onto overcrowded inflatable dinghies - have been picked up by Greek authorities in the eastern Aegean Sea in the past two days," correspondents for the British newspaper Daily Mail Jenny Stanton and Mario Ledwith mentioned in their...

As Greece is struggling to emerge from its liquidity trap and panic is spreading across the globe over a potential default, Greek islands saw a considerable drop in tourism. ​The arrival figures at some of the country’s top tourist...

A team of South Yorkshire Police detectives travelled to Greece seeking to leverage new findings in order to unlock a new cycle of research about Ben Needham, the toddler from Sheffield who went missing in the Greek island of Kos...

The top three spots on the list of the 30 most popular islands in the Mediterranean are occupied by the Greek islands of Ios, Hydra and Folegandros. The list was published after a survey on the search history and hotel...

On Wednesday morning, the Greek coast guard located and rescued 207 illegal migrants in seas around the eastern Aegean islands, in four separate operations. The first case concerned 95 illegal migrants in two inflatable dinghies sighted near a marina on the island of...

Hundreds of migrants have packed themselves in an area that is meant to host only 35 people. There are 236 people heaped in the Kos Police Department, which is housed in an old Italian building dating back to the...