Thessaloniki, Greece News

The process for the submission of expressions of interest in the tender concerning the privatization of regional airports has been extended by 14 days, with the state privatization fund attributing the delay to the interested partiesA' need of additional clarifications.

Teachers wearing tee shirts that read "No to the Civil Mobilization" take part in a protest in central Thessaloniki on Monday, May 13, 2013.

Three women from Halkidiki, northern Greece, who were arrested on Sunday following another day of tension between protesters and police at the Skouries gold mine faced a local prosecutor on Monday.

A 45-year-old Greek citizen who fled the United States more than two decades ago, the day before he was convicted of murdering his 2-year-old stepson, has been retried in his home country and sentenced to 18 years in a Greek jail, U.S. law enforcement officials said on Friday.

The Association of Hellenic Tourism Enterprises is proposing a twin focus in the stateA's strategy to attract more Chinese tourists, ahead of Prime Minister Antonis SamarasA's visit to China next week.

When the Benaki Museum in Athens hosted the expansive exhibition on the architectural history of Thessaloniki in the 1912-2012 period, the catalog that was supposed to accompany it had not made it off the press.

The Mediterranean sea, as a geographical space, in which the current cultural and social reality is researched and studied, although yet vague and still extremely interesting due to the constant dramatic changes in recent years, with its traditional elements along with influence and impact of the global model indicated, will be again this year's ... (more)

In 2001, she was listening to the radio while washing dishes when she first heard the soulful and gritty sound of rebetiko , a Greek music genre.

THESSALONIKI, Greece - Greek authorities have arrested five foreign nationals from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany on the Greek-Turkish border on charges of illegally entering a restricted border area.

Construction companies in Greece are taking steps to expand their activities into sectors such as waste management, as they realize they can no longer rely on public works for their survival.

A'It was midnight on October 5, 1998, when the truck containing the famed art collection amassed by George Costakis arrived at the Lazariston Monastery in Thessaloniki.

Authorities expect a busy day on the roads and at ports in Greece on Monday as Athenians return from their Easter vacations.

The main incentive for the motion is the beautiful venue in the historical hotel Makedonia Palace where Savidis recently took the management.

The Municipality of Lagadas, near Thessaloniki, has signed an agreement with German authorities for 1,000 Greek students to be enrolled in a work experience program in Berlin.

Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections Premieres at National Gallery of Art, Washington from October 6, 2013, through March 2, 2014; Travels to the J. Paul Getty Museum, April 9 through August 25, 2014 WASHINGTON, DCIn the first exhibition devoted to Byzantine art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, some 170 rare and important works, drawn ... (more)

The Organization Against Drugs , which runs rehabilitation programs for people addicted to heroin and other narcotics, has warned that it is running dangerously low on methadone as members of its programs report that they are being given smaller doses of the substitute drug.

Far-right party Golden Dawn has said it plans to hand out free food in AthensA's main square on Thursday.

Aeroflot increased its offering to Greece last week, as it added a third route to the southern European country from its Moscow Sheremetyevo base on 26 April.

The privatisation body said four groups had bid for the utility, which is 74%-owned by Greece, without disclosing the names of the suitors.

Recent rescue excavations conducted by the Greek Archaeological Service at the historical centre of Thessaloniki, Greece, for the construction of the underground railway network, revealed significant evidence of the city's urban life from the 4th-9th centuries: the monumental gate at the crossroads of the marble paved avenue , framed by public ... (more)