Iraklio

A total of 51 migrants, among them four women and six children, were found on a beach in southern Crete on Friday night.

They were located on a beach in the Tris Ekklisies area in the Archanes-Asterousia municipality, in Iraklio prefecture.

The migrants have been transferred to an accommodation facility.

Coast guard officers have rescued 52 migrants off the south of Crete after receiving a call for help through the emergency 112 number.

The migrants, who say they are citizens of Sudan and Egypt, were on an inflatable vessel in the sea south of the village of Kaloi Limenes in Iraklio prefecture.

Former minister Lefteris Avgenakis on Wednesday indicated that he would not give up his parliamentary seat should he be expelled from the ruling New Democracy party, as expected, following footage that surfaced showing him assaulting an airport employee.

A 16-year-old British girl vacationing on Crete with her parents has filed a complaint with police in the prefecture of Iraklio, saying she was raped at a bar on Wednesday night.

The teenager, who was at the bar in the popular seaside resort of Mali with her parents, told police that she was attacked in the restroom. 

Police in Crete are investigating a shooting in which assailants riddled a car with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, injuring a man inside.

The shooting took place in the village of Tsifout Kastelli, in Iraklio prefecture, according to state broadcaster ERT.

The Municipality of Iraklio on Crete has of its own accord put a freeze on the imposition of fines for illegal structures in the city.

A priest in a parish of Iraklio on the island of Crete is being investigated by police after he was found in possession of unregistered old icons and large sums of money.

The fall of the Venetian port of Candia - the modern-day city of Iraklio - to the Ottomans in September 1669 was an event of such geopolitical and cultural significance that its impact was felt well beyond Crete, stretching across the Western world and to the east.

EMAK rescue workers and fire brigade employees in the Cretan prefecture of Iraklio were attempting on Friday to rescue two men who became trapped by snow in the area of Krousaniotiko Livadi.

A track-laying vehicle was dispatched to the scene in a bid to reach the exact location of the two men, according to local reports late on Friday morning.

A wildfire broke out north of Damasta, in the municipality of Iraklio on the island of Crete, on Friday morning.

A group of 18 firemen were battling the blaze although strong winds were reportedly hampering their efforts on Friday afternoon.