Thessaloniki, Greece News

A new wave of violent attacks against academics is sweeping campuses in Athens and Thessaloniki, leading Greek professors to question a law that bans police officers from entering university grounds.

Riots have broken out in Athens and Salonica during the first day of A. Grigoropoulos murder anniversary with police demonstrating extreme brutality leaving two people seriously wounded by a motorised charge on the Athens march.

Masked youths smashed store windows and hurled rocks and firebombs at riot police who responded with tear gas Monday in a second day of violence during commemorations of last year's fatal police shooting of a teenager.

Masked youths hurled firebombs and jagged chunks of marble at police as violence erupted during a march in Athens Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager whose death sparked massive riots.

Protesters throw stones against police during riots outside the Athens' Academy Dec.

Voters in the New Democracy leadership contest shunned Dora Bakoyannis in favour of a veteran figure who appealed to the party base.

An exceptional fortification structure surrounding the ancient city of Vergina, located in northern Greece, was recently discovered by archaeologists from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

A convicted kidnapper on leave from prison forced his way Wednesday into a German school in northern Greece - for the second time in three years - and was holding one staff member hostage at gunpoint, police said.

ATHENS, Greece -- A group of men set a series of nearly simultaneous fires in different parts of Thessaloniki on Monday , causing minor damage.

Greek atmospheric metal band SCAR OF THE SUN will support PAIN OF SALVATION in Greece: Jan.

The railway is composed of two separate [~]6-m-diameter parallel tunnels, each of which is [~]8 km long and has 13 stations.

A former lawmaker and finance minister was elected the new leader of Greece's conservative opposition party on Sunday, succeeding a former prime minister.

They are also a major constraint on the government as it attempts to tackle the coming recession.

The White Tower and Nea Paralia projects in the northern port city signal a promising modern approach to managing public spaces Giorgis Gerolympos Quality town planning has provided a brand-new look for the district of Nea Paralia in Thessaloniki and augurs well for a new relationship between people and public space.

A shadow was cast over this year's 50th anniversary celebrations of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival , which wrapped on Sunday.

The p olice electronic crime s squad in Greece broke up a major child pornography ring on Thursday following a four-month investigation codenamed "Charlie " conducted in Athens, Thessaloniki and 14 other cities throughout the country.

The cantor summoned his 13-year-olds - boys and girls he had tutored for their bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies at Congregation Rodeph Sholom.

First prize went to a crime drama set in the Middle East. An international jury headed by director Theo Angelopoulos gave top honors and 40,000 euros at the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival to A'Ajami,A' a multilayered crime drama set in a mixed Israeli-Palestinian neighborhood in Jaffa and directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani.

Vampire thriller A'NosferatuA' from 1979 marked the second of five legendary collaborations between Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski.

An anarchist group has claimed responsibility for two small bomb attacks on sex shops over the past week in Greece's northern port city of Thessaloniki that caused no injuries.