Kalamata

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' visit to Kalamata, SW Peloponnese, scheduled for Friday will be postponed due to the fire emergency in Greece.

In addition, the premier will not be attending the International Conference on Migration and Development in Rome, scheduled on Sunday (July 23).

They worked witth Pomak embroiderers to create intricate traditional patterns and alongside the nuns of the Orthodox Monastery of Saints Konstantinos and Eleni in the Peloponnese, mastering the art of weaving on the loom.

The Kalamata International Dance Festival returns to the southern Greek city this summer, in a rich celebration of some of the most exhilarating Greek and international contemporary choreographies, for 10 days from July 14. The theme of this year's program is "(Re)Turn to the Body."

Search operations continued on Saturday in the sea region 47 nautical miles southwest of the Greek town of Pylos, southwestern Peloponnese, where a fishing boat carrying migrants sunk on Wednesday, killing at least 78 people.

A Greek navy frigate, another three ships sailing by and a Hellenic Coast Guard helicopter are taking part in the operations.

Greek anti-racist organizations, unions and others on Thursday staged rallies in cities including Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Karditsa and Kalamata, protesting the tragic shipwreck off the coast of the Peloponnese that cost the lives of at least 78 migrants.

Authorities in the port city of Kalamata have made nine arrests following the sinking of a fishing boat southwest of the Peloponnese that killed at least 78 migrants, a Shipping Ministry source has said.

All those arrested, who are said to be from Egypt, will face charges of forming a criminal organization and illegal migrant trafficking.

The migrants rescued from the deadly boat sinking off the coast of southwestern Peloponnese will be transferred to the Reception and Identification Center in Malakassa, in East Attica, the Migration Ministry said on Wednesday.

The President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou departed on Wednesday for Kalamata, where there are more than 100 migrants rescued from a shipwrecked fishing boat. The boat was carrying an unknown number of migrants when it capsized in international waters some 47 nautical miles from the Peloponnese coast, near the town of Pylos.

Greece on Thursday pursued a grim search for survivors a day after a fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized and sank in the Ionian Sea, with the number of victims feared to reach into the hundreds.

As relatives in the migrants' home countries frantically sought details of their loved ones, the coastguard said 78 bodies had been recovered so far.

More than 80 individuals were rescued in the early hours of Wednesday in the sea area located 47 nautical miles southwest of Pylos in the southwestern region of Peloponnese. The incident took place within international waters when a fishing vessel, carrying an unknown number of undocumented migrants, capsized.