Pyrgos

As it is stated, by implementing dangerous maneuvers, the Turkish ship forced the Cypriot vessel to leave the area and enter the port of Kato Pyrgos.
No more details about the incident are known yet.

#BREAKING Turkish ship fires warning shots at Cyprus coastguard: Cyprus media pic.twitter.com/QhfwOONhHb

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Police have arrested a 44-year-old man on suspicion of shooting and killing his wife.

The incident took place in the village of Pyrgos Dirou in the Mani peninsula in the Peloponnese late Sunday.

Reports said the victim was mother of two minor children.

There was no immediate word on the man's motives.

Bishop Germanos of the Ilia prefecture in southern Greece claimed at a rally on Thursday that he had been told by Jesus Christ to urge Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to expedite construction work for a new highway linking the towns of Patra and Pyrgos.

The Museum of Marble Crafts in Pyrgos on the island of Tinos presents the processes that this versatile material goes through from the quarry to the workshop while also shedding light on the important role it has played in art, architecture and the island's economy since ancient times. The museum is open daily except Tuesdays and holidays between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Heavy rainfall early on Saturday led to roads and bridges flooding in the Cretan prefecture of Iraklio. In Lasithi meanwhile, floodwater trapped several people in their homes, taxing the EMAK rescue services and regional firefighting services who received numerous calls.

An explosion at a bank ATM outside a supermarket in Pyrgos, southern Greece, in the early hours of Thursday, caused damage to the façade of the store but no injuries.

According to the police, the unknown perpetrators channeled flammable gas into the machine before igniting it to cause the explosion.

They fled with an undetermined sum of cash from the ATM.

The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) and the National Gallery of Greece present "Giannoulis Chalepas: Return to Pyrgos," an exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of the Tinian sculptor's death in 1938, at the Museum of Marble Crafts in Pyrgos on the island of Tinos.

A 36-year-old firefighter who sustained a head injury from a falling rock while battling a blaze on the outskirts of Zaharo in the western Peloponnese on Tuesday has to undergo more medical tests, his doctors have said.

An event that has taken Paris by storm is now at the Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece after setting up decks at the Maori Beach Bar in Gomati, through Sunday, July 23. Tropical Discotheque features DJs from Paris, London, Berlin, Athens and Thessaloniki playing soca, merengue, calypso, samba, reggae, mambo and other music from the French West Indies, Latin America and Africa.

A team of recue workers and soldiers was dispatched from the central Greece town of Volos to the northwestern Aegean island of Skopelos on Thursday to rescue dozens of shepherds who have been trapped by heavy snowfall since Saturday.