Mediterranean

The Greek Parliament's plenary debated and approved two ratification bills on Tuesday evening, one for the port of Igoumenitsa in western Greece and one amending the concession for the port of Thessaloniki.

Both ratification bills were included in a bill by the Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy.

A woman died on Monday morning after being hit by a commercial train near the Thessaloniki Police Headquarters in the area of Menemeni, state-run news agency AMNA reported.

The police is looking into the case while authorities are waiting for the train driver's statement to determine he circumstances of the accident.

The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (amth.gr) celebrates its 60th anniversary with an exhibition showcasing milestones over the course of those years.

The Thessaloniki Museum of Modern Art has taken over the Moni Lazariston venue with an exhibition of pieces from its famed Costakis Collection of Russian avant-garde art - arguably one of the best of its kind in the world. "50+1 Stories" goes back to the Greek collector's archives to explore the entire era and how it was expressed in different forms of art.

A group of people threw flyers at the German Consulate located on Megalou Alexandrou Avenue in Thessaloniki on Monday afternoon inscribed with messages of support for Turks in prisons in Germany.

They read: "Freedom for the fighters from Turkey who are imprisoned in Germany."

The State Orchestra of Thessaloniki is finally getting a permanent home after a memorandum of cooperation was signed on Friday with the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, whose board has for decades resisted such a move.

A distinction at the recent pan-European Junior Achievement (JA) competition for young entrepreneurship by a team calling itself Isometricks that developed a fun and education brain game, has shone a spotlight on the work of the University of Macedonia's Experimental Junior High School in Thessaloniki, northern Greece.

A fire was reported in an agricultural and wooded area in the wider region of the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Thursday.

According to the announcement made by the Hellenic Fire Service, the fire is not threatening any settlements. There are 33 firefighters, nine vehicles and one helicopter on scene to tackle the blaze.

A 37-year-old martial arts coach stands accused of sexually molesting three teenage female students in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, the police said in a press release on Tuesday.

A Greek student startup has for the second consecutive year won top honors in the European final of GEN-E Junior Achievement Europe, which took place this year in Istanbul. Isometricks, from Thessaloniki, excelled with Wizzle, a thought and creation game with hidden mathematics that exercises the mind.