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After four months of negative tests after recovering from an initial bout of Covid-19, a 45-year-old man in the Northern Greek city of Xanthi has tested positive for coronavirus once again. After testing positive for the virus in April and...

The Greek Parliament on Wednesday approved a last-minute amendment introduced by the government which spares Greece's football champion PAOK and Xanthi FC from being relegated down from the Superleague. The government's amendment garnered 156 positive votes, while 90 MPs voted...

Government spokesperson Stelios Petsas announced on Tuesday that following orders of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, MEP Theodoros Zagorakis will be expelled from the European Parliament caucus of the New Democracy party. The announcement came as the latest episode in a...

A tragedy similar to what happened a few days ago in Essex, England, where 39 migrants from Asia were found dead in a truck, was avoided at the last minute in Xanthi, Greece on Monday morning. Following a routine police...

For the first time in Modern Greek history, all students in a parade in Xanthi were wearing Muslim headscarves. In the past, Muslim headscarves rarely appeared en masse in student parades. Xanthinews.gr. reports that the spectacle was unprecedented, and it became...

An imam in charge of services at a village mosque in Xanthi, northeastern Greece was released without conditions on Wednesday, after testifying before a Xanthi public prosecutor. The imam had been arrested on Tuesday after police, acting on a...

Greek police on Tuesday, discovered weapons and ammunition inside a mosque in the city of Xanthi, northeastern Greece. According to exclusive information released by newspaper Ekathimerini, Greek security services received a heads up some hours ago to check on a...

The carnival of Xanthi is expected to attract over 5,000 Turkish tourists who are to visit the region on the last weekend of February. Many tourists from around Greece and the Balkans flock to Xanthi during this period for the festivities. "In...

Leftist groups on Saturday evening attacked police and vandalized banks and shops, demonstrating against the opening of Golden Dawn offices in Xanthi, northeastern Greece. Hundreds of demonstrators had gathered on Saturday evening in the center of Xanthi to protest the...

A tornado whizzed through Xanthi, a city in Thrace, northeast Greece, spreading panic and destruction in its path early on Tuesday. The extreme weather phenomenon came in the wake of three earlier tornadoes that had swept through the plains...

  The northern city of Xanthi is one of the most underrated places in Greece. This beautiful destination has the biggest and best-preserved Old Cities in the country, and has also been influenced by many different cultures in its past, evident...

The city of Xanthi is preparing its famous pastry, "the karioka," for a place in the Guinness World Record. The pastry makers of Xanthi, produced on Wednesday a traditional karioka that weighs 383 kilos and it will be distributed in...

Organizers and thousands of participants in the Xanthi Carnival in Greece, will be dancing to the rhythm of the Mundial Championship. The carnival is the peak of the 49th Thracian Folk Festival, and it will take place from February...

The number of confirmed cases of the West Nile Virus (WNV) in Xanthi, Greece, has reached 14, which is increasing dramatically from week to week. According to ThrakiToday, a total of ten cases has been recorded so far in  the...

The local community of Chrysa, the western quarter of Xanthi, in northern Greece, is devastated after learning the tragic news that a  32-year-old mother of two underage children committed suicide by hanging herself from a beam.  The woman was...