Regional units of Greece

A man, aged 89 years, was found strangled on the island of Andros, the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago. The assailants had killed the man before trying to burn his body. Residents of the Gavrio village of Andros, where the crime took place, are in a state of shock as relatives and friends of the deceased are being called to testify.

Popular outrage broke out in Greece and the #kastana (chestnut vendor) hashtag caught fire after 13 policeman arrested an elderly Thessaloniki chestnut vendor for not issuing receipts.

The image of a Turkish warship passing through the Corinth canal is not a usual occurance. The ship in question is the anti-torpedo ship Sokullu Mehmet Pasa. The video has gone viral with a number of viewers believing that the ship had something to do with two frigates around the Aegean between Lesbos and Chios in violation of Greek territorial claims.

A strong earthquake struck the island of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea with its epicenter 23 km southwest of the main town of Lefkada.

The Athens Geodynamic Institute says the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 and occurred at 9:10 a.m. (0710 GMT) Tuesday off Greece’s western mainland, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) west of Athens.

Limnos island has unique beauties and many sites to visit.

One of them is the unique chapel of Panagia Kakaviotissa. It is the only chapel in Greece and perhaps in the whole world that has no roof, but it is protected by a rock above it.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is chairing a special meeting on the refugee issue at noon on Friday at the government’s headquarters at Maximos Mansion, Athens. The meeting comes following the Greek PM’s visit to the border island of Lesbos with European Parliament President Martin Schulz.

The renowned Greek poet and singer left Greece at the age of 13 during Greek military junta of 1967 and relocated in Belgium, while from 1981 she has been staying in Paris.

Angelique Ionatos performs in Paris, Spain, Italy, Germany, Canada, while she rarely visits Greece. In 2009 had a concert in Mytilene, Samos and Athens.

Temperatures took a nose dive as mountain peaks enjoyed their first snow for the season. Mount Parnassos, towering over Delphi in Northern Greece, wore its winter colors as snow flakes fell over Fterokala (1,600 m) early on Sunday morning.

At Samarina and Perivoli at Grevena, west Macedonia, temperatures dropped and 10cm-thick snow covered the region.

At least 13 migrants, six of them children, have drowned as two boats making the hazardous crossing from Turkey capsized in the Aegean Sea off Greece on Nov. 1, the Turkish Coast Guard has said, adding to the three children and one woman who died off Turkey's Çanakkale. 

The first tragedy occurred off the island of Samos when a boat overturned just 20 meters from the shore.

The journalist of Los Angeles Times, Jessica Gelt, writes about her experience visiting Greece stating that it is a perfect destination for budget holidays.