Kos

An archaeologist was attacked and punched by a contractor on the island of Kos last month, organizations representing archaeologists and culture ministry employees have charged.

In a joint statement, the Association of Temporary Archaeologists (SEKE) and Panhellenic Association of Emergency Personnel of the Ministry of Culture (PSEP YPPO) condemned the incident.

Local authorities on the island of Rhodes in the southeastern Aegean detained four Turkish nationals on Wednesday for performing maintenance work at a mobile telecommunications company without the necessary permits. The individuals were employed by a company also owned by Turkish nationals, which specializes in such projects.

There is a steady flow of illegal immigrants arriving on the country’s islands.

Yesterday morning, the Port Authority of Kos was informed by the Police Department of Kos that a person was swimming towards the Greek coast in the sea area “Lampi”.

The swimmer came ashore on his own and was taken to the General Hospital-Health Center of Kos for first aid and was discharged.

Crete, as well as parts of the northern and southern Aegean, faces a very high risk of fire on Saturday, the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection has said.

On the ministry's fire risk forecast map for Saturday, Chios, Crete, Ikaria, Kalymnos, Karapathos, Kos, Rhodes and Samos are all marked orange, the second-highest fire-risk category.

Greece has taken concrete steps in recent years to combine insularity with actions that will promote development in harmony with the environment, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at the opening of the Nisyros Dialogues event, held on the Dodecanese island on July 4-7.

The Decarbonization Fund is a tremendous tool that will allow Greek islands to become models of green transition, Environment & Energy Minister Thodoros Skylakakis said in an online address for the "Nisyros Dialogues: Bridging the East Med," held for the third consecutive year at the eponymous island by the Georgios M. Michalos Foundation that opened last Friday.

Moving moments unfolded in Kos when islanders said their own “thank you” to the firefighters involved in the fire battle in Cardamena.

As shown in the video, when residents of Kos noticed members of the 1st Special Forest Operations Unit, they broke into applause, rewarding the efforts of the firefighters.

Greek firefighters battled a blaze on the islands of Kos for a second day on Tuesday, as hundreds of tourists and locals who had been forced to evacuate overnight returned to their hotels and homes.

Firefighters were on standby all night in Kos, Chios and Heraklion Crete to contain fire fronts. As known by the fire brigade, the fires in Kos and Chios are showing a better picture with the fire brigades however facing several scattered outbreaks.

Three blazes that started on Monday in different parts of the Aegean continued to test firefighters on Tuesday morning, though showed signs of improvement after significant resources were committed to battling them.