A serious maritime incident occurred on the night of July 24, 2025, when the Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship MN KOSTAS ran aground on a reef three nautical miles west of Cape Sideros, Crete, within the protected Natura area.

Local inhabitants and authorities are gathering what remains after the dreadful turn of the bad weather, with heavy rains in Sitia.

A Polish man, for whom a European arrest warrant was pending, was arrested after fourteen years, on Crete.