Geography of Greece

The 45-year-old managing director of a company in Thessaloniki was arrested on Saturday for debts to the state that exceed 34 million euros.

The man is involved in the aluminum trade.

Police did not give any more details.

Parts of central Thessaloniki will be left without water from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, August 6, the local water company (EYATH) said on Saturday.

EYATH said that the interruption would occur because it is laying new pipes.

A 37-year-old man has been arrested in Xanthi, northeastern Greece, on suspicion of defrauding customers at his travel agency.

The suspect is alleged to have taken more than 3,500 euros from seven customers for air tickets and holiday bookings since December 2014 but failed to deliver what his victims had paid for, police said.

Firefighters on Friday were trying to bring under control a large blaze that broke out shortly after noon in the Prefecture of Corinth in the northern Peloponnese.

Five water-dumping craft and 21 firetrucks were dispatched to quell the blaze, which broke out at 12.30 p.m. in a wooded area between the villages of Stefani and Klenias.

Human rights groups on Thursday slammed a decision by a Greek prosecutor to shelve the investigation into the deaths of 11 immigrants who drowned during a controversial coast guard operation near the eastern Aegean islet of Farmakonisi in January.

A 34-year-old man has been arrested in Thessaloniki for stealing contraband cigarettes that had been seized by police and were awaiting incineration.

The man worked at the firm in the Efkarpia area that was due to destroy the cigarettes but was found in possession of 2,565 packets from the illegal consignment.

By Dimitris Rigopoulos

As architect Nikos Kazeros was walking through Monastiraki Square in central Athens recently, he noticed a group of workers repositioning the colored tiles that pave the western side of the square. “In what order are you repositioning the tiles?” he asked. “It's all random,” the men replied. Their answer came as no surprise.

After years of financial troubles, the city of Athens is finally buzzing with tourists. Despite some encouraging figures however, the Greek capital has not quite managed to become a destination in itself, in the style of many of its European peers.

A 75-year-old woman has been arrested in Thessaloniki for pretending to be a psychic and convincing 58-year-old woman suffering from an illness to give her 35,000 euros.

By Harry van Versendaal & Elis Kiss

Like a decadent, ailing giant that failed to awe, the Doxiadis Office Building for years sat neglected on the foot of Lycabettus Hill, discreetly overlooking the capital's upmarket, albeit idiosyncratic, Kolonaki neighborhood.