Kos

Port and coast guard authorities on the southeastern Aegean island of Kos on Monday impounded a speedboat that had transported 13 illegal migrants to Greece.

A port authority patrol vessel spotted the speedboat in the sea area of Psalidi and a chase ensued after its skipper refused to comply with instructions to stop.

The southeastern Aegean island of Kos will receive aid amounting to 2.5 million euros after the European Commission proposed the disbursement of funds totaling 34 million euros from the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) to help member-states Greece, Poland, Lithuania and Bulgaria that were struck by natural disasters in 2017.

Odyssey, tragedy, deadlock. The three words that sum up each of the chapters in Nikos Pilos's 17-minute black-and-white documentary trilogy "Dying for Europe," which makes its Greek debut at the ongoing Thessaloniki festival, have been routinely used by international media to describe Europe's refugee crisis.

The union representing hotel workers and servers on Kos in the eastern Aegean reacted on Wednesday to reports that a new resort on the popular holiday island is asking all of its employees to sign individual contracts foreseeing fines in the event of guest complaints.

Coming from an ancient culture themselves, Japanese people show an admiration for ancient Greek history and an attraction to the Greek culture in general. The extent of this respect was exhibited in a Japanese man’s desire to save the plain tree that according to tradition was planted by the father of western medicine Hippocrates.

Japanese entrepreneur Okana Tetsuya wants to save The Tree of Hippocrates on the island of Kos, which is suffering problems due to aging. The 81 year-old businessman visited the tree on Tuesday, where he declared his interest in saving it from withering away forever.

Greece's Health Ministry has committed 200,000 euros to meet emergency needs of the hospital of Kos following last month's earthquake.

The 6.6 magnitude quake on July 21 caused extensive damage, killing two people and injuring dozen.

Earlier this month, the government approved 300,000 euros in aid for the eastern Aegean island.

A 4.5 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Kos a little after 5pm, Friday. The epicentre was located 21km southeast off the coastal city of Halicarnassus (Bodrum) in Turkey with the depth measured at 2km.

A father was detained by police after it was revealed that he had been allegedly prostituting his 14-year-old girl on the island of Kalymnos for 5 euros for the last 3 year. According to sources, the father would solicit his daughter to older men who paid up to 20 euros to have sexual contact with the girl.

The mayor of Kos, Giorgos Kyritsis, on Wednesday, called on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis to start the process of granting compensation to homeowners and businesses that suffered losses when a strong quake, measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale, struck the Dodecanese island last month.