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The Thessaloniki International Fair has established the city as an ultimate city destination for September

The rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Nikos Papaioannou, testified on Friday in the context of the preliminary investigation carried out by Thessaloniki police into allegations by former students that they were sexually harassed by professors.

As part of its ongoing exhibition of drawings, maps and watercolors executed by amateur artist soldiers of the Allied Army of the Orient posted to Thessaloniki during the Great War (1914-18), the Teloglion Foundation will also screen related footage from the film archives of the French Ministry of Defense on Wednesday, January 16.

Gallery owner and collector Alexander Iolas, widely considered one of the most influential figures on Greece's post-war art scene, is the subject of a tribute at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art which marks the 30th anniversary of his death.

After a hugely successful run in Athens last season, "Van Gogh Alive - The Experience" has opened at the Helexpo exhibition center in Thessaloniki, where it will remain through January 20.

Fifteen people have been arrested in a drug sweep in downtown Thessaloniki in the last 24 hours, police in the northern port city said on Thursday.

The operation was conducted by the departments of security and emergency response, and covered the city center and the area around Aghiou Georgiou Square, focusing in particular on the vicinity of Aristotle University.

Envoys from five allied countries on Saturday marked the centennial of the World War I armistice between Bulgaria and the Allied Powers in Thessaloniki.

Some 5,000 additional officers of the Greek Police (ELAS), helicopters and boats belonging to the coast guard, and agents from America's Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation are forming the biggest ever security operation to protect the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), which opens at the northern port city on Saturday.

At least five people were injured, two of them seriously, on Friday when a van carrying 24 undocumented migrants overturned on the Egnatia highway in northern Greece.

The vehicle, which had Greek license plates, flipped over while on the Kipoi-Alexandroupolis section of the motorway.

The injured were transferred by ambulance to the University Hospital in Alexandroupoli. 

Hundreds of different beers, food from around the world and workshops, including for on cocktails with beer, make up this year's Thessaloniki Beer Festival, running through Sunday, September 2. There will also be music and other fun at the event, which takes place in the courtyard of the Helexpo fairgrounds from 12 noon to 12 midnight.