COSTAS KANTOURIS

Associated Press

Greek police forensic experts search the spot where a 38-year-old woman was killed early Saturday when a bomb she was carrying exploded in her hands, local police said, in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

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

A 38-year-old woman has been killed in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki while carrying a bomb. Police say the bomb exploded in the hands of the woman, who apparently intended to place the device outside a nearby bank around 5 a.m.

US national faces extradition from Greece over alleged link to online child abuse network

An American man who allegedly helped run an online network that targeted children for acts of violence and sexual exploitation has been arrested in northern Greece. Leonidas Varagiannis, 21, is accused of being involved in the U.S.

Construction crews uncover a mass grave in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, on Feb. 28, 2025, containing remains believed to belong to dozens of prisoners executed during or after the Greek civil war. (Municipality of Neapoli-Sykies via AP)

Greece’s dark past is uncovered after 33 bodies are found in a civil war-era mass grave

Graves unearthed in northern Greece contain bones widely believed to be from victims of the country’s civil war in the late 1940s. In the shadow of a notorious prison, the burial site contains at least 33 bodies, some executed.

Protesters take part in a rally, for the victims of a massive nightclub fire in the town of Kocani, in Skopje, North Macedonia, Monday, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Protesters demanding greater accountability march in North Macedonia over deadly nightclub fire

Thousands of protesters have marched in North Macedonia’s capital Skopje demanding accountability for a nightclub fire in Kocani on March 16 that killed 59 people and injured over 100.

Hooded protesters throw flares against riot police during clashes, on the third and final day of a censure motion debate against the conservative government in parliament over a deadly rail disaster nearly two years ago, in Athens, Greece, Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Violence erupts during protests in Greece as government challenged in vote over rail disaster

Clashes have broken out in Greece’s two largest cities as protesters hurled gasoline bombs and flares outside parliament.

People attend a rally organised by the association of the families of victims of the Tempi train collision, which killed 57 people almost two years ago, at central Syntagma square, in Athens, Greece, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Protesters in over 100 cities in Greece and abroad demand justice for 2023 rail crash victims

Tens of thousands of Greeks have taken to the streets in 110 cities, including 13 locations abroad, to demand justice for the victims of the country’s deadliest rail disaster in 2023.

This undated handout photo provided by the Greek Police and released on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 shows a marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old which was found abandoned in a garbage bag in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece. (Greek Police via AP)

A 2,000-year-old statue is found abandoned in a garbage bag in Greece

Police in Greece say a marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old has been found abandoned in a garbage bag and handed to archaeologists.

Hotel fire near monastic sanctuary in Greece leaves 1 dead, 11 hospitalized

Officials say a hotel fire near a monastic sanctuary in central Greece, has left its owner dead and 11 hospitalized. The three-story building suffered extensive damage, with firefighters rescuing 26 people, including four children.

Christina Sotirakoglou a handwriting expert, observes Byzantine paintings based on photographs prints, at her office, in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Experts believe study of 700-year-old handwriting unveils leading Byzantine painter’s true identity

Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle: The true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who injected a human touch into the rigid sanctity of Orthodox religious art.

Commuters walk around a metro station during the inauguration day of the Thessaloniki metro, in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

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

The metro system in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki has opened featuring driverless trains. Tens of thousands of people Saturday braved blustery, rainy weather to wait outside the stations to try them out.

An ancient site is exposed at the newly built Agias Sofias metro station in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, ahead of its Nov. 30 official opening. The station is part of the city's long-delayed subway system showcasing archaeological finds from decades of construction. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Ancient meets modern as a new subway in Greece showcases archaeological treasures

Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, is opening a new subway system, blending ancient archaeological treasures with modern transit technology like driverless trains and platform screen doors.

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)

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

Yiannis Boutaris was a winemaker who served two terms as mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, and shook up its conservative image. His company Kir-Yianni said he died late Saturday.

5.2-magnitude tremor hits northern Greece; no damage reported

Authorities say a 5.2-magnitude tremor has hit northern Greece. They say the tremor occurred at 07:03 p.m. local time about 40 kilometers southeast of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city.

Germany’s president visits the site of a Holocaust museum being built in Greece

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has visited the site of a Holocaust museum being built in Greece as he began a three-day state visit.

FILE - Greece's George Baldock stands on the pitch before the Euro 2024 group B qualifying soccer match between Gibraltar and Greece at the Algarve stadium outside Faro, Portugal, Friday, March 24, 2023. Former Greece international and Panathinaikos defender George Baldock, who had previously played for Sheffield United, has been found dead in his Athens home, Greek media reported.(AP Photo/Joao Matos, File)

Panathinaikos defender Baldock found dead in his Athens home

Panathinaikos defender George Baldock, a former Greece international who also played for Sheffield United for seven seasons, has been found dead in his Athens home. He was 31.

The dried out Lake Picrolimni is seen from above, in the village of Mikrokampos, northern Greece, Aug. 19, 2024. A severe drought in northern Greece, worsened by successive heatwaves and low rainfall, is causing water shortages that are threatening agriculture, drying up lakes, and stressing local communities dependent on tourism. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Drying lakes and thirsty trees: In drought-hit Greece, water trucks are keeping crops alive

A severe drought in northern Greece, worsened by successive heat waves and low rainfall, is causing water shortages that are threatening agriculture, drying up lakes, and stressing local communities dependent on tourism.

Greek border guard shot in abdomen while patrolling border with Turkey

A Greek border guard has been shot in the abdomen while patrolling the Greek-Turkish border. Police said the injuries from the shooting on Saturday are not life-threatening.

Revellers gather in front of the White Tower during EuroPride, a pan-European international LGBTI event featuring a Pride parade which is hosted in a different European city each year, in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Saturday, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Thousands attend annual EuroPride parade in Greek city of Thessaloniki amid heavy police presence

About 15,000 people have attended the annual EuroPride parade, police say, most of them in support of the LGBTQ+ community in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki amid a heavy police presence.

FILE - People stand amid the charred remains of burned-out cars in Mati east of Athens, Greece, Tuesday, July 24, 2018. A court on Monday, April 29, 2024, has convicted five former Fire Service and disaster response officials over a 2018 wildfire outside Athens that killed more than 100 people. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

5 former officials are convicted over Greece’s deadliest wildfire but are freed after being fined

A Greek court has convicted five former firefighting and disaster response officials over the deadliest wildfire in the country’s history, with more than 100 people killed outside the capital.

Protesters hold banners during a rally in Athens, Greece, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. A 24-hour strike called by Greece's largest labor union have halted ferries and public transport services in the Greek capital and other cities, to press for a return of collective bargaining rights axed more than a decade ago during a severe financial crisis. Writing on banner with red line across the face of Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, reads in Greek; “Killer Government / We Will Overturn It”. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Unions in Greece call widespread strikes, seeking a return to bargaining rights axed during bailouts

Strikes called by Greece’s largest labor union have halted ferries, disrupted public transport services and left some state-run hospitals running on emergency staffing levels in Athens and elsewhere.

The imam leads the morning prayers at the historic Yeni Cami, or New Mosque, in the port city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Eid prayers were held in the historic former mosque in northern Greece for the first time in 100 years. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Eid prayers held in a historic former mosque in northern Greece for the first time in 100 years

A building in the Greek city of Thessaloniki that was originally erected for a community of Jewish converts to Islam is being used for mass prayers during the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday.

An aerial view of the wagons and other parts recovered from a train wreck, near Larissa city, central Greece, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Greece's deadliest rail disaster killed 57 people when a passenger train slammed into an oncoming cargo train. The tragedy shocked the country, with many of the victims being university students. (AP Photo)

Strikes halt trains and ferries in Greece a year after country’s worst rail disaster that killed 57

Widespread strikes in Greece halted trains, ferries and much of the capital’s public transport in protests timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the country’s deadliest rail crash, which killed 57 people.

Protesting farmers with their tractors take part in a rally outside the annual Agrotica trade fair in the port city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. Greek farmers – hit by rising costs and crop damage caused by recent floods and wildfires – gathered around the conference center hosting the event in the northern city of Thessaloniki to underline their determination to escalate protests over rising production costs by blocking highways. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Greek farmers dump produce outside an agricultural fair and promise to escalate protests

Greek farmers have dumped chestnuts and apples on the pavement outside an agricultural fair and promised to escalate protests after a Tuesday meeting.

FILE - Protesting farmers with their tractors take part in a rally outside an agricultural fair in the port city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos, File)

As Europe’s farmers find common cause in grievances, governments race to offer concessions

Greece’s annual Agrotica trade fair traditionally gives farmers a chance see the latest equipment and agricultural innovations. On Friday, the event became a focal point for their long-standing frustrations.

Riot police officers clash with protesters outside the public university in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Police joined by officers from a special forces unit entered the grounds of the city's public university where protesters had occupied the principal's office. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Students and police clash in Greece as debate rages over legalizing private universities

Police and student protesters have clashed in the Greek capital after a demonstration against government plans to allow private universities.

High-ranking Orthodox prelate warns against spread of antisemitism by religious officials

Speaking at a commemoration for victims of the Holocaust, a high-ranking official of the Orthodox Church is warning Sunday against the spread of antisemitism by religious and church officials.

The Palace of Aigai, built more than 2,300 years ago during the reign of Alexander the Great's father, is seen from above after it fully reopened in ancient Aigai, some 65 kilometers (40 miles) southwest of the port city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. It was the largest building of classical Greece: The palace where Alexander the Great was proclaimed king before he launched a conquest that took him as far as modern-day Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

After 16-year restoration, Greece unveils palace where Alexander the Great became king

After a 16-year renovation, the Palace of Aigai, where Alexander the Great was proclaimed king, has been reopened.

Nature groups go to court in Greece over a strategic gas terminal backed by the European Union

Five Greek and international environmental campaign agencies have launched legal action against a major natural gas project in the Mediterranean country. The project is supported by the European Union as a regional alternative to Russian energy.

EU Mediterranean ministers call for more migrant repatriations and increased resources

Migration and interior ministers from the Med 5 – Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain – who met in Thessaloniki, Greece Friday and Saturday hailed the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, asked 2 billion from the European Union to deal with the issue and took a hard line on returning illegally cr

FILE - Dead animals lie on the mud after heavy rains in Volos, central Greece, on Sept. 6, 2023. The storms flooded 720 square kilometers (72,000 hectares), mostly prime farmland, totally destroying crops. They also swamped hundreds of buildings, broke the country's railway backbone, savaged local roads and bridges and killed tens of thousands of livestock. Thessaly accounts for about 5% of national economic output, and a much larger proportion of agricultural produce. (AP Photo/Thodoris Nikolaou, File)

The cost of damage from the record floods in Greece’s breadbasket is estimated to be in the billions

Greek officials are assessing the staggering cost of repairing the damage from record flooding and compensating residents and businesses. The storms began earlier this month and flooded 280 square miles of mostly prime farmland.