Thessaloniki

The Thessaloniki-based National Theater of Northern Greece is celebrating an important milestone after hitting the 1-million seat mark in special group bookings.

These groups include a diverse range of theatergoers, from ex-convicts in social reintegration programs and patients at psychiatric facilities, to pensioners from community centers and school pupils for far-flung islands. 

The nine adults out of 21 arrested for attacking two transgender individuals late on Saturday were released after being presented before the first instance court in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Monday. 

The Thessaloniki court postponed the trial due to the absence of witnesses.

Nine people jailed in Greece will be tried Monday over accusations they harassed and threatened two 21-year-old transgender persons in the northern city of Thessaloniki.

The nine were remanded after appearing before a prosecutor Sunday. Twelve other people, all minors, were released provisionally pending trial on the same charges before a juvenile court.

Police arrested 21 individuals for attacking two transgender people late on Saturday in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, including 11 minors who were later released under orders of a prosecutor. 

They are facing charges of serial verbal abuse with racist motives, while two of the adults were additionally charged with attempted serial simple bodily harm, with racist motives.

Revelers take part in traditional "Tskinopempti" (Smoky Thursday) celebrations in the northern port city of Thessaloniki. The aroma of grilled and roasted meats filled the streets in cities and towns across the country on Thursday, marking an important date in the "Apokries," the three-week Greek Carnival season.

Aegean Airlines has secured another slot at London's Heathrow airport and is adding to its schedule a fourth daily flight from Athens to the UK's busiest international hub, it said on Tuesday.

The new flight will operate every day throughout the year except on Saturdays, leaving Athens at 4 p.m. local time and London/Heathrow at 7 p.m. local time.

A Greek prosecutor charged 10 people on Wednesday over a series of recent bomb and hand grenade attacks, including a planned parcel bomb explosion at a court in the northern city of Thessaloniki this month, judicial sources said.

Thousands of striking Greek workers and students marched through central Athens on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the country's deadliest train crash - and demand justice and bigger pay rises.

Rail services in Greece ground to a halt and ships were held up in ports near Athens on Wednesday as rail workers walked off the job to mark the anniversary of the country's deadliest train crash - and demand justice and bigger pay rises.

Even though a year has gone by since the February 28, 2023 rail disaster near Larissa at Tempe, central Greece - which claimed the lives of 57 people, most of them young university students returning from a long weekend break - judicial authorities appear to have widened the scope of inquiries in recent weeks, adding more names to their list of suspects.