Yahoo

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 ...
Yahoo

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) ...
WPLG

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

THESSALONIKI – 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 was ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Thousands hold silent march through Greek city of Thessaloniki to mark 1943 Nazi transport

Fewer than 2,000 of the city’s prewar Jewish population of 55,000 survived the Holocaust. (JTA) — Some 2,000 people held a silent march through the Greek city of Thessaloniki to mark the anniversary ...
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 ...
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 ...