Icaria

Ikaria is one of the five places in the world where people live the longest & are healthiest and this is the Japanese ad’s twist of the story

Turkey on Tuesday issued three navigational telexes (Navtex) covering large swathes of the Aegean Sea, saying it is in response to Greece's militarization of the eastern Aegean islands of Chios, Samos, Samothrace, Lemnos, Ikaria and Patmos.

Six villages on the North Aegean island of Ikaria were evacuated for several hours during the night as a wildfire fanned by northerly winds threatened to reach the settlements.

On Thursday morning, the municipality of Ikaria lifted the evacuation order.

Greek coast guard officers located and rescued 121 migrants and refugees in two separate incidents in the eastern Aegean Sea on Monday morning.

The fist incident concerned an inflatable dinghy that had sailed from Turkey and was trying to reach the northern shores of Ikaria. It was carrying 49 unidentified migrants who have been transported to Vathy on the nearby island of Samos.

Cyprus' electronic crimes division is investigating a fake social media page that called for donations to fund a funeral for Natalie Christopher, a 34-year-old British scientist and Cyprus resident who died on the Greek holiday island of Ikaria earlier this week.

A 34-year-old British scientist who was found dead at the bottom of a steep ravine on Wednesday on the eastern Aegean island of Ikaria, where she was on holiday with her partner, most probably died as a result of a fall rather than foul play, an expert said Thursday.

A 34-year-old British scientist who was found dead at the bottom of a steep ravine on Wednesday on the eastern Aegean island of Ikaria, most probably died as a result of a fall rather than foul play, an expert said on Thursday.

Greek police confirmed Wednesday that a body found at the bottom of a ravine at the Aegean island of Ikaria belongs to the British scientist who went missing while on holiday.
The ravine is located near the rented rooms where the woman was staying with her 38-year-old boyfriend. No further details were provided by police.

Rescue crews searching for a British scientist who went missing while on holiday on an Aegean Sea island found a body on Wednesday afternoon in a ravine close to the rented rooms where the woman was staying.

Police investigators are testing DNA and trying to decipher mobile phone signals in Natalie Christopher's disappearance, the British woman who went missing on a Greek island while on vacation with her Cypriot boyfriend.