Veria

Authorities have filed charges against the 64-year-old car driver after his vehicle collided with a bus stop in the northern city of Veria, resulting in the deaths of two women early on Monday. 

An appeals court in Thessaloniki has handed a 74-year-old man a four-year jail sentence, which he can buy out, and five co-accused a 12-month prison term suspended for 3 years for their role in an illegal excavation for gold coins in a protected structure in Veria.

It is midday as we ascend beneath a cloud-dotted sky to the "kingdom" of Philip II, the 4th century BC king of the Macedonians and father of Alexander the Great.

Police in northern Greece arrested a woman on Tuesday after the death of her six-month-old baby.

The 37-year-old mother, living in a village of Imathia, allegedly hit the infant. Her two other children, aged six and seven, who were present during the incident, ran out of the house and called for help. 

It was the largest building of classical Greece: The palace where Alexander the Great was proclaimed king before he launched a conquest that took him as far as modern-day Afghanistan.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis inaugurated the recently restored Palace of Aigai in northern Greece on Friday.

With an area of approximately 15,000 square meters, it was the largest building in classical Greece.

The project to maintain and restore the Palace of the Aigai lasted 16 years and was completed in 2023 with a total budget of 20.3 million euros.

A 74-year-old woman suffered fatal injuries when a car, driven by her 50-year-old daughter-in-law, veered off the provincial road between Veria and Sfikia in the Imathia region of northern Greece on Tuesday, plummeting into a 20-meter ravine.

The head of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Imathia, Angeliki Kottaridis, has refuted a claim this week by influential Byzantine scholar Helene Glykatzi-Ahrweiler that the tomb in Vergina, in northern Greece, is not that of Philip II of Macedonia but of his son, Alexander the Great, the 4th century BC warrior king.

On Sunday morning, Seli, a northern village in the Veria municipality, hit a bone-chilling minus 4.8 degrees Celsius, according to the National Observatory of Athens on meteo.gr.

Elsewhere in the country, snow and sub-zero temps were the norm.

Monday promises a slight warm-up, with island temperatures reaching 19 degrees Celsius.

The lifeless body of a 21-year-old Sudanese man, who had been missing since July 26 after going swimming in the Aliakmonas River, was discovered near the northern Greek town of Veria, as announced on Thursday.