A plane from the German company Condor made a stopover on Crete on Thursday evening after a bomb threat. The pilot forced the aircraft that was traveling from the Egyptian tourist resort of Hurghada to Düsseldorf to the ground in Chania.
A Russian who had been reported missing by her family appears to have been bobbing for 21 hours on the open sea off the coast of the Greek island of Crete. The woman sought refreshment with her airbed, but drifted further and further from the beach by a strong current.
A North Korean delegation arrived in Singapore on Saturday evening in the run-up to the summit meeting between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and US President Trump. According to local media, the delegation went to the St. Regis Hotel, where Kim is likely to move in on Sunday.
Heavy prison sentences for a gang of people smugglers in Greece. Two Afghans and a Syrian are sentenced to no less than 360 years in prison on Crete. An Iraqi henchman was given 357 years in prison. They must each also pay a million euro fine. The level of the penalty is especially symbolic, because they have to be released after 25 years.
The Greek Coast Guard discovered a yacht off the coast of the island of Crete with seventy migrants on board. The 25-meter-long ship was probably on its way from the Turkish or Egyptian coast to Italy.
In order to avoid the dramatic increase in cyber attacks, EU countries need to work much more closely together. The European Commission wants to flow non-personal information freely through Europe and presented Tuesday plans to ensure digital security.
Two Germans were arrested in Crete for theft of antique items. They are suspected to have dumped the coast for archaeological finds. The police searched the two seas on the high seas on Tuesday and caught antique gear and diving equipment.
In an attempt to save two of their children from drowning, their parents on the coast of Crete themselves drowned. The Greek Coast Guard said the two 35-year-old Greek parents were killed by their action at a beach in Rethimnon.
After two weeks of high temperatures and drought, the fire brigade in Greece has the hands full of fighting fires. Only fires in the whole country have been broken from Friday to Saturday morning, the fire department said.
A Maltese ship Wednesday 113 refugees from a small vessel rescued the Ionian Sea. The Gagliarda brought them to the Greek port of Patras.
On the Greek island of Crete twenty traffickers arrested 120 immigrants who were trying to provide Europe. That Greek media reported Friday.
Greece is white. Large parts of the country are in the night from Sunday to Monday buried under a load of snow. Numerous rural villages and islands in the Aegean Sea are cut off from the outside world.
The extreme winter conditions in Europe have led this weekend chaos. Dozens of people have been killed by flying the wintry weather, planes were grounded and ferries not matter.
Many residents of Crete saw Sunday for the first time in their lives snow. It had been snowing for the last forty years ago. The wider area of the port town of Rethymnon on the southern Greek island had long once winter white.
Ferry Staff in Greece ended the strike. This can end the sometimes chaotic conditions on the Greek islands. The president of the union PNO made Saturday by the Greek television announced that the ferry staff goes to work after the springs eight days had halted.
On the Greek island of Chios raging since Monday morning a fire fueled by strong winds, extreme heat and drought. The places Lithi, Elata and Mesta have been evacuated as a precaution in the southwest of the island, local media reported.
At less than ten minutes drive from the 'Dutch colony' Hersonissos keep British youth their party holiday. Here it is all about shamelessly by drink until you fall over. Sodom and Ghomorra exists. The only hot Malia.
The frigate Zr.Ms. Van Amstel has put Saturday 150 migrants in Sicily on land, who were saved Friday from a boat that was at sea for five days. The migrants boat was subsequently sunk, the Defense Ministry reported.
One person killed in a shooting in the Utrecht district of Overvecht. Police are looking for two suspects who fled. was shot to Crete Drive. Above the district orbits a police helicopter.
After a rescue of the Dutch Navy frigate Zr. Ms. Van Amstel was born Thursday night a baby.
The boat with migrants capsized Friday for the coast of Crete had left Egypt and had about 350 people on board. Reported that the Greek coast guard sat on the basis of statements from refugees who survived the incident.
The Greek coastguard Friday launched a rescue operation after 140 kilometers a boat had capsized with refugees for the coast of Crete. Also ships nearby join the rescue operation. The Greek authorities have so far rescued 250 people from the sea.
The Greek coastguard said Friday east of the island of Crete rescued 65 migrants, including seventeen children. The refugees were on board a small ship that had fallen into distress.
The search for the Thursday of the radar vanished airliner EgyptAir is likely to be hampered by rising bad weather. The eastern Mediterranean will face Friday with heavy rain and strong winds, expect the Greek weather institute.
The Eqyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Thursday night promised to make every effort the plane disappeared from EgyptAir to find as quickly as possible to get clarification on what caused the crash.
Wreckage that are seen Thursday in the sea southeast of the Greek Crete, are not blue-white in color, according to sources at the Greek Ministry of Defence. The colors of the Egyptian airline EgyptAir are white and blue. The Egyptian mythical figure Horus heading in blue hues great at the front of the predominantly white aircraft.
Greek police teargas on Friday deployed against peasants who tried to occupy the Ministry of Agriculture in Athens. Farmers perform many weeks action against increases in taxes and pension contributions and wish Friday and Saturday put the capital on stilts.
