Regional units of Greece

The arrival of migrants continued unabated on Friday, with a total of 289 people reaching the islands of the northern Aegean from midnight to 11 a.m., based on data provided by the region's general police directorate.
Of those arrivals, 111 arrived in Lesvos, 33 in Chios and 145 in Samos,

Police in the town of Larissa, central Greece, announced the arrest Thursday of eight people over their involvement in illegal archaeological digs and antiquities trading after a months-long investigation.
The gang conducted illicit excavations in mountainous rural areas of Thessaly and Pieria in central Greece with the aim of selling their finds on the black market.

A Lebanese citizen who was detained in Greece for four days on suspicion of involvement in a 1985 TWA hijacking and set free after it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity arrived at the port of Piraeus on Tuesday afternoon, after taking the ferry from Syros, where he had been held.

Another 408 migrants reached the island of Lesvos by Friday noon, of which 73 arrived by sailboat, the general police directorate of the Northern Aegean said in a press release.

The new arrivals raise the total number of migrants living in the overcrowded identification center of Moria to 12,000, when the camp's capacity is for 3,000.

Migrant flows from Turkey to the islands of the eastern Aegean continued unabated this week, with 694 people arriving on the shores of Lesvos, Samos and Chios between early Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon.

Work to restore the 19th century single-arched stone bridge of Plaka that collapsed during the February 2015 floods in northwestern Greece is reportedly on course for completion by February 28. The bridge, on the border of the Arta and Ioannina regional units, spans the Arachthos River. It was built in 1866 and from 1881 to 1913 connected Greece to the Ottoman Empire.

A total of 3,469 migrants arrived at Greece's northern Aegean islands from the start of September till Friday morning, according to figures published by the region's general police directorate.
Breaking down the numbers, 2,078 foreign nationals arrived on Lesvos, 589 on Chios and 802 on Samos since September 1.

One person was killed and eight were injured when a car crashed into another vehicle on the northern Egnatia highway, near the town of Komotini, early Thursday morning.

Hundreds of migrants arrived on the eastern Aegean islands of Lesvos over the weekend and in the early hours of Monday, official figures showed. 

A total of 227 migrants landed on the island between midnight on Sunday and 9.30 a.m. on Monday, according to the police headquarters for the northern Aegean, with another 228 reaching Lesvos from neighborign Turkey on Saturday and Sunday. 

A total of 149 migrants and refugees landed on Wednesday on Greece's eastern Aegean islands, authorities said.
Of those, 67 reached Samos, 41 Lesvos, and 41 Chios.
Authorities said another 87 people had landed on Lesvos and 41 on Samos by 3 p.m. on Thursday.