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The incident took place around 9:00 AM when the speedboat carrying migrants from the Turkish coast did not comply with the visual and audio signals from the Coast Guard.

Instead, the boat made dangerous maneuvers and attempted to ram the Coast Guard vessel, putting the physical safety of both the migrants and the Coast Guard crew members at immediate risk.

The next week is expected to begin with significant instability, featuring scattered showers or thunderstorms, mainly in the afternoon and evening over the mainland, according to the director of the National Meteorological Service (EMY), Thodoris Kolydas.

The approval for the creation of a large-scale tourist village with villas and hotels on Astypalaia, which will exceed the island's two largest settlements, by the Central Urban Planning Council has drawn the opposition of the local council, which has been ignored.

The investment's massive scope and its effect on an island that is generally "preserved" are not the only issues.

Greek-Turkish relations have been in a state of calm for some two years now, with no Aegean overflights and, more importantly, hardly any unauthorized flights into the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR).

A rescue operation is taking place on Tuesday on Corfu island, in the area of Giannades, after a female tourist fell from a cliff at Gyali Beach.

Turkey's interest was again piqued on Monday by the conduct of surveys for the laying of electrical interconnection cables by the Italian-flagged research vessel Ievoli Relume south of Kasos and Karpathos in the southeast Aegean.

The rescue of little “Jonah”, the 50-day-old refugee boy who was rescued by coastguards in Tilos, quickly became known on the internet.

An operation to rescue a 50-day-old infant, who was part of a migrant group, took place on Sunday on the southeastern Aegean island of Tilos.

Maria Kamma, the mayor of Tilos, posted a video of the rescue operation of the infant, which went viral on social media. 

Greece is grappling with a severe water shortage that impacts both its islands and mainland, according to Kathimerini.

Greece is facing severe water shortages affecting both islands and the mainland, public broadcaster ERT reported Wednesday.