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A 43-year-old woman was shot dead in her home on the Saronic island of Salamina, near Piraeus, on Tuesday morning, with police reportedly looking into her ex-husband.

Hundreds of homeless undocumented refugees and migrants staying on the streets of Rhodes Island, Dodecanese tried to board commercial boats to Piraeus port on Sunday morning. Police and coastguard officials blocked their way. 

According to state media ERT, the refugees and migrants returned to the streets after seeing the heavy blockage from the police.

Four crew members of the Blue Horizon ferry charged with the death of a passenger were given time until Sunday morning to testify after appearing before a prosecutor in Piraeus on Saturday.

What happened on Tuesday night at the port of Piraeus, where a man was thrown into the sea by the crew of a ferry, shows that drastic changes are urgently needed in maritime transport. 

It is worrying that this particular incident happened on a ferry owned by a large company in the country's largest port. 

Authorities have detained the captain and the deck officer of the Blue Horizon ferry in connection with the death of a 36-year-old man at the Piraeus port late on Tuesday.

Passenger traffic at the ports of Piraeus, Rafina, and Lavrio saw a notable 8.59 percent increase compared to the previous year during this year's summer months. 

Specifically, from June 1 to August 31, a total of 5,613,856 passengers were transported, surpassing the 5,169,646 passengers transported during the same period in 2022. 

A woman was seriously injured on Thursday afternoon when a car moving at high speed hit her while she was waiting to cross the street in southern Athens.

The incident took place outside the Metropolitan Hospital in Neo Faliro when the driver, while travelling from Piraeus towards Glyfada, lost control of his vehicle, crossed in the opposite direction and hit the woman.

The trip from central Athens to Elefsina and the West Attica town's Old Olive Mill takes me through a hot, "post-industrial world in transition and looming uncertainty," just as the note on the exhibition I'm heading to promises. The show is titled "Elefsina Mon Amour: In Search of the Third Paradise," and it is the headline visual arts event of the 2023 Cultural Capital of Europe.

America's youngest and biggest aircraft carrier has made an imposing sight after dropping anchor in Athens' Faliro Bay near the Port of Piraeus, en route to Souda Bay on Crete from the Adriatic and Ionian seas, on Thursday.

Tens of thousands of Athenians left the capital on Saturday in what is traditionally the largest summer holiday exodus.