Provinces of Greece

Two injured as ferry crashes into Sifnos pier

Two passengers were slightly injured on Wednesday when a ferry struck the pier at the port of Sifnos island in the Aegean Sea.

The accident took place as the Sea Jet 2 vessel carrying 196 passengers sailed into the island's harbor on its regular route from Piraeus to Serifos, Sifnos, Milos, Folegandros, Santorini, Koufonisi, Naxos, Mykonos, Santorini.

Hydrocarbon exploration maps for Ionian and Crete unveiled

The government on Wednesday provided the locations of the three blocks - two off the coast of Crete and one in the Ionian Sea - that will be tendered for hydrocarbon exploration.

The block to be tendered for exploration in the Ionian Sea covers 6,671.13 square kilometers and is located north of the island of Cephalonia and west of Lefkada and Corfu islands.

Two tons of cannabis seized from a yacht near Kythira

Coast guard officials on Kythira detained two foreign men on Friday, an Italian and an Albanian national, after seizing some 2 tons of cannabis from a yacht spotted sailing off the island's southern coast.

According to a statement issued by the coast guard, the vessel had set sail from Italy, collected the drugs from Albania and had been bound for the islands of the Aegean. 

Fires rage at the island of Kythera, Greece!

 

On early Saturday afternoon, the fire that threatened the island of Kythera, where two settlements were evacuated, Mylopotamos and the Araies was reignited. Two aircraft and three helicopters returned hurriedly to the area, although earlier, when the fire was considered to be under control, they had left.

There are also 23 vehicles, 118 firefighters.

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