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Mainland and Crete affected from Sunday afternoon - Strong storms in the Ionian Sea and the western mainland from noon on Monday - Maps

Wearing ancient Greek chlamys, NBA legend Magic Johnson and his wife, Cookie, partied with their friends on his boat off the coast of Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea. Magic's social media was filled with photos, advertising Greece and the ancient Greek kitsch that proves to be durable and timeless. 

The NBA legend is on a Greek island hopping holiday in the Ionian Sea

He is in the Ionian Sea

The Turkish media dubbed the extension in the Ionian Sea a scandal

Police and port authority investigators have reportedly identified the members of a migrant trafficking ring linked to a vessel that sunk on January 11 off the island of Paxos in the Ionian Sea, which resulted in 12 deaths and 20 people reported missing. 

Greek lawmakers ratified on Wednesday evening four contracts for hydrocarbon exploration off Crete and in the Ionian Sea.

Voting for the concessions were MPs of ruling New Democracy, KINAL and Greek Solution, while the main opposition SYRIZA expressed reservations. The Communist Party and MeRA25 voted against them.

In May, Corfiots "celebrated" the 154th anniversary of the day the United States of the Ionian Islands ceased to exist and became part of Greece. It was the first major territorial accretion to the fledgling state and it had been controversial in both Corfu and Athens. It still is.

A weather system dubbed Minos by Greek meteorologists is bringing rain, storms and hail to many parts of the country this weekend.

Sweeping in from the west, the system was to hit the islands of the Ionian on Friday, bringing light showers and a drop in temperatures, before spreading east across the rest of Greece.

The signing ceremony of the contract granting rights to the consortium of France's Total, Italy's Edison and Greece's ELPE to explore for, and exploit, hydrocarbons in plot 2 in the Ionian Sea in western Greece will take place on Tuesday at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in southern Athens.