Travelers trying to make last-minute flight reservations to the islands this year should confront fewer problems than usual.
Many of those died on route to Lesbos, which has been the destination of more than half the 610,000 asylum seekers reaching Greek islands this year.
More than 600,000 refugees have landed on Greek islands this year, and several other disused sports facilities are being used for temporary shelter.
Seventy-nine Japanese boats have circled the islands this year, the police chief here said, but none has entered South Korea's territorial waters.
Leaked documents seen by the Guardian show that the Pacific Cook Islands this year reversed the progressive position it took on climate change in Paris last year, to lead opposition in the IMO to emissions cuts being imposed.
Pounding Japan just 10 days after the "strongest typhoon in a decade" hit Tokyo, this latest tropical storm is the 10th typhoon to strike Japan's main islands this year, breaking a record of six.
