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Coast guard vessel rams refugee boat near Kos, three missing
Three refugees, including a child, were missing and six were injured off the island of Kos on Wednesday morning after a Coast Guard boat rammed their rubber dinghy carrying 34 people on board.
The dinghy capsized throwing all passengers into the water, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.
Hotels fret after Thomas Cook's collapse strands about 50,000 in Greece
About 50,000 tourists are stranded in Greece and mainly on island resorts after British travel firm Thomas Cook collapsed, the tourism minister said on Monday as extra flights were booked to ease their return home.
50,000 holidaymakers stranded due to Thomas Cook collapse to be repatriated, Theoharis says
Some 50,000 holidaymakers stranded in Greece due to the collapse of the Thomas Cook tour operator are to be repatriated in the coming days, Greek Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis told Skai television on Monday.
The first 22,000 are to be repatriated over the next three days, the minister said, adding that aircraft were to arrive on Monday at Zakynthos, Kos and Corfu.
Theoharis: 50,000 holidaymakers stranded in Greece to be repatriated in coming days
Some 50,000 holidaymakers stranded in Greece due to the collapse of the Thomas Cook travel agency are to be repatriated in the coming days, Greek Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis told Skai television on Monday.
The first 22,000 are to be repatriated over the next three days, the minister said, adding that aircraft were to arrive on Monday at Zakynthos, Kos and Corfu.
Israeli kayakers rescued on Greek island hop
Greece's coast guard says 12 Israeli tourists have been rescued after they got caught in high winds during a kayak trip between two islands in the eastern Aegean Sea.
The tourists alerted authorities after setting out from the island of Kos on Friday to nearby Nissiros, some 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) to the south.
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Fire suspect arrested on Leros
A 20-year-old foreign national was arrested on Saturday and charged with starting Friday's fire on the southeastern Aegean island of Leros.
The fire began in the area of Merikia and soon spread, burning more than 4 hectares of pine forest.
The suspect, who is a resident of the island, appeared before a prosecutor on the nearby island of Kos.
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Numbers of German tourists decline
A recession at home, combined with Greek hotels' loss of competitiveness, due to their being overburdened by taxation, and the recovery of destinations such as Egypt and Turkey, has led to a drop in the number of German tourists this year.
Reservations by Germans on Crete were down 6 percent in July compared to the same month last year, while those in Rhodes dropped 5 percent.
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Kos installs tsunami alert amid complaints from hoteliers
The island of Kos became the first region of Greece to install electronic signs alerting to a possible tsunami, but a local hotelier association complained the signs are "terrorizing" tourists.
Almost all masjids, graveyards of Kos island ruined: Association
A Turkish cultural association said on Aug. 5 that almost all mosques and graveyards on Greece's Kos (Istankoy) island were "ruined" and closed to worship.
Mitsotakis visits Karpathos island
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