Chania

The Holy Light is expected to arrive at Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” from Jerusalem, under the care of the Greek government – Aegean and Olympic Air will transport it to 9 regions while SKY Express to 7

Thirty-eight migrants were rescued off the southern coast of Crete on Thursday, the Coast Guard said.

The migrants, all men, were located by the crew of a Liberian-flagged cargo ship some 17.5 nautical miles south of the small island of Gavdos and then transported by a Coast Guard lifeboat to the Cretan port of Sfakia.

A settlement near a Greek military base on the island of Crete was evacuated on Tuesday after a fire broke out amid low vegetation at a road junction nearby, the Fire Service said. 

With less than two months to go before the European Parliament elections on June 9, the campaign has entered a crucial phase with tours by political leaders and party committees being a key element.

Greece's Coast Guard said on Thursday it had rescued 37 migrants from a vessel off the southern coast of Crete. 

The migrants were found on Wednesday night 18 nautical miles southeast of the small island of Gavdos. They were all collected by a container ship sailing nearby before they were transported by the Coast Guard to the port of Paleochora, near Chania.

Shortly before Monday's visit by Migration and Asylum Minister Dimitris Kairidis to Gavdos, south of Crete, 74 people were found on a boat that was at risk 10 nautical miles southeast of the island and rescued by the coast guard. They were transferred to the port town of Palaiochora, Hania on Crete (photo).

The immigrants were rescued and safely transported to Paleochora in Chania

MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Warehouse A, Pier A, Thessaloniki port) is presenting the work of photographer Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari, best known as Nelly's, focusing on the three cities where she focused her photographic gaze from the early 1920s to 1966.

All of the rescued are accommodated in a building of the Chania Port Fund

The final contractor for the construction of the Hania-Hersonissos section of the North Road Axis of Crete highway will have been found by early summer, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras said in Hania on Monday, noting that the concession contract will be signed by the end of the year.