Seas

Abdullah Kurdi sits in front of the German NGO "Sea-Eye" rescue ship named after his son Alan Kurdi, during the ship's inauguration in Palma de Mallorca, Spai, Sunday.

A German migrant rescue ship which operates in the Mediterranean was renamed on Feb. 10 after Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach at the height of the migrant crisis, sparking global outrage.

Over the southern Bulgaria the clouds will tear down and diminish to sunny, but later in the evening from the south will again increase.

Ferry boats have been banned from sailing in the Aegean Sea as winds in the area reached speeds of 9 and 10 on the Beaufort scale on Tuesday morning, preventing safe passage.

Ferries to the Aegean islands are tied up at port in Piraeus, where only services to the nearby Saronic Gulf are running as usual.

A new cold front is forecast to sweep much of the country from Tuesday to Thursday, from the south to the north. 

The Ionian, Crete, the Peloponnese, mainland Greece, Evia and the Cyclades are to see heavy rainfall which is to spread across the Aegean to the Dodecanese and Thessaly by Tuesday night.

The Antalya Gulf is under invasion by a growing number of a fish species arriving from the Red Sea that is replacing local unique ones off the coast of the Mediterranean province of Antalya, an Akdeniz University professor of aquaculture has warned. 

A moderate earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale shook a sea area between the islands of Crete and Kasos in the southern Aegean Sea early on Saturday.

According to the Geodynamic Institute in Athens the tremor took place at 1.34 a.m. and its epicenter was located 67 kilometers west of Kasos.

The policies of the European Union and its member states are putting at risk the lives and rights of refugees in a number of countries, including Turkey, Amnesty International says in a fresh report The policies of the European Union and its member states are putting at risk the lives and rights of refugees in a number of countries, including Turkey, Amnesty International said in a fresh