Thessaloniki

Boring for a railway tunnel in central Greece that will reduce travel time between Athens and Thessaloniki by half an hour was completed on Friday, according to ERGOSE, a subsidiary of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE).

The Athens Water Supply & Sewage Company (EYDAP) reported first-quarter profit fell 79 percent as a one-time tax gain at the largest Greek water supplier wasn’t repeated while net income also declined at the Thessaloniki Water & Sewage Co.

A 31-year-old man in the northern port city of Thessaloniki was facing fraud charges for developing an online travel deal scam.

According to initial reports the suspect posted an announcement on a social networking website regarding a supposedly organized trip for two to a European country.

Giorgos Kaminis and Yiannis Boutaris retained the mayorships of Athens and Thessaloniki in the second round of local elections on Sunday but there were changes in key Greek cities.

Patra, Greece’s third largest city, was won by Communist Party candidate Costas Peletidis. In Iraklio, Crete, independent hopeful Vassilis Lambrinos beat PASOK-backed incumbent Yiannis Kourakis.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis appeared to have held on to his seat in local authority elections after his leftist challenger conceded defeat, although the race for Attica governor remained too close to call late on Sunday night while a number of independents beat government-backed candidates in other key seats.

Bulgarians from around the country and the world pay tribute Saturday, May 24, to the legacy of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius, the creators of the Cyrillic alphabet.

Up to 20 tons of campaign posters and leaflets are expected to be collected by municipal workers in Athens in the wake of local and European elections on Sunday, Skai reports.

The amount of trash in Thessaloniki, Greece's northern port city, is expected to reach 15 tons, according to the same report.

Members of the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) confiscated over 1.3 million packs of contraband cigarettes in a warehouse located the area of Kalochori, near the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Tuesday, Greek police said in a statement on Wednesday.

A truck bearing Bulgarian plates and heating devices were also discovered in the warehouse, according to early reports.

BELGRADE - Serbian Railways restored on Tuesday evening the international rail traffic with Greece and Bulgaria on the entire stretch from Belgrade to Thessaloniki and Sofia.

On Wednesday, Serbian Railways will get back to normal the international passenger traffic from Belgrade to Montenegro and Macedonia.

PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos claimed late on Sunday that SYRIZA’s strategy of trying to turn local and European Parliament elections into a referendum on the government failed on Sunday.