Hios

The municipal council of the island of Chios, in the eastern Aegean, rejected a government proposal to set up a new, closed pre-departure center for migrants on the island, in a marathon session that ended at midnight on Monday.

According to the plan discussed, the centre would be created at the 15th kilometre of the Chios-Volissos road.

The municipal council of the island of Chios, in the eastern Aegean, rejected a government proposal to set up a new, closed pre-departure center for migrants on the island, in a marathon session that ended at midnight on Monday.

According to the plan discussed, the centre would be created at the 15th kilometre of the Chios-Volissos road.

An Iraqi girl aged two was killed on Monday after being struck by a car outside the Vial migrant camp on the eastern Aegean island of Chios. 

The accident, which involved a car belonging to a non-government organization operating at the camp, occurred shortly after noon. 

An investigation was under way to determine the exact circumstances of the incident. 

The scenic town of Molyvos on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos is gearing up host the fifth edition of its International Music Festival, honoring classical music dating from the 17th century to the present.

Greek coast guard vessels, one Navy ship and several privately-owned boats on Sunday were continuing for a second day the search for a 22-year-old Greek-American who went missing after the boat he was on with three more passengers capsized off the Oinousses complex of islands in the eastern Aegean on Saturday morning.

Two people were arrested on Wednesday on charges of negligence that led to fires on Tuesday on the eastern Aegean island of Chios and in Lamia, central Greece.

Police said the 48-year-old man arrested on Chios was doing agricultural work in the area of Kalamoti when the fire started.

Hundreds of asylum seekers stranded on Greece's eastern Aegean islands who ought to have been moved to the mainland or deported are putting unnecessary pressure on the already-crowded facilities, Kathimerini understands.

Hellenic Navy divers on Saturday located at a depth of 800 meters north of Skyros signals from the flight recorder of the Mirage 2000-5 which plunged into the sea in the central Aegean on Thursday, killing the pilot Captain Giorgos Baltadoros.

The Migration Ministry and municipal authorities on Chios look set to clash over the government's plans to expand a reception center for migrants on the eastern Aegean island.

Efforts to improve living conditions at reception centers for migrants on the islands of the eastern Aegean are progressing slowly amid continuing resistance from locals toward expanding facilities to accommodate hundreds of new arrivals from neighboring Turkey.