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Greek city of Thessaloniki gets new metro system with driverless trains after years of delays

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — The metro system in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki opened Saturday featuring driverless trains, and tens of thousands of people braved blustery, rainy weather to ...
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Yiannis Boutaris, winemaker and maverick former mayor of the Greek city of Thessaloniki, has died

FILE - Former mayor of northern Greek Thessaloniki city, Yiannis Boutaris, answers questions during a news conference in Athens, on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File) ...
Anadolu Agency

Greek farmers block Thessaloniki port amid nationwide protests about aid delays

Greek farmers blocked the Thessaloniki Port on Friday with tractors, agricultural vehicles and tour buses as part of ...
Variety

‘The City and the City’ Tells Untold Stories of Thessaloniki’s Jews During WWII

In “The City and the City,” which bowed in the Berlin Film Festival’s competitive Encounters strand and will have a special screening on March 15 at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Syllas ...
Newsday

Woman dies when a bomb she is carrying explodes in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police say

THESSALONIKI, Greece — A woman was killed early Saturday in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki when a bomb she was carrying exploded in her hands, police said. The 38-year-old woman apparently ...
Star Tribune

Yiannis Boutaris, winemaker and maverick former mayor of the Greek city of Thessaloniki, has died

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Yiannis Boutaris, a winemaker who served two terms as mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, and shook its conservative image, died Saturday evening, his company ...