Thessaloniki

Police in Greece have arrested four people as suspects in a violent mob attack that left the mayor of Thessaloniki hospitalized. About a dozen people set upon Mayor Yiannis Boutaris at a Saturday ceremony honoring Greek victims of the Pontian Genocide. He...

A mob, believed they were right-wing extremists, attacked and injured the mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris, during a ceremony to commemorate the Pontian genocide on Saturday. The 75-year-old mayor was punched and kicked as he fell to the ground by several...

Authorities in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, are struggling to repair the water and power grids following Thursday's hailstorm that endangered lives. The municipality says the water and electricity supply will be intermittent on Friday. Many areas will be without water for...

Students and tourists were trapped inside the White Tower as hailstorm and flash flooding hit Thessaloniki, paralyzing the city on Thursday. Twenty-four students from the high school of Argalasti, Volos and 10 tourists from Britain were trapped in the White...

A Thessaloniki municipal authority has installed libraries in bus stops to improve local residents' daily commute. Bookcases were built inside the stone bus shelters along the number 64 bus route which connects Filyro with the centre of Greece's second city. The...

Residents in Thessaloniki were shocked when police and army explosives experts were called in after ammunition and a hand grenade was found in an apartment. Saturday's operation came after relatives of the owner -- reportedly a former military man who had...

Some residents of Greece's second city are struggling to get by as water supplies remain disrupted following a burst pipe. Reports claim a 40-year-old pipe burst, meaning the city center and north-western suburbs have been without water since Tuesday. Hundreds of...

A serious damage in the Thessaloniki main water pipeline has left the city without water supply, causing problems in hospitals and forcing schools to close. In a new announcement, the Thessaloniki Water Supply & Sewerage Co. (EYATH) notes that the...

Greek diplomacy broke new ground on Thursday as Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias became the first high-ranking state official to fly directly to Skopje in 12 years. Photographs published on Thursday evening showed Kotzias alighting from a government jet at Skopje International...

Retracing the steps that brought him to the Auschwitz concentration camp 75 years ago, 92-year-old Holocaust survivor Moshe Aelion on Sunday took his wheelchair and joined others who marched in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki to send the...