Halkidiki

Edessa Jury Court to the two defendants accused of the murder of the 41-year-old pregnant woman, last January, with her body found in a trunk in a forest area near Monopigado, on the border of the prefectures of Thessaloniki and Halkidiki.

Two men are to be tried by a mixed jury court in Edessa, northern Greece, for the murder of a 41-year-old pregnant woman, whose body was discovered in a trunk in a forest on the border of the prefectures of Thessaloniki and Halkidiki in January.

Following the completion of the project "Population Movements and Material Culture: Digital Mapping of Halkidiki from Prehistory to Historical Times," the Ephorate of Antiquities of Halkidiki and Mount Athos has announced the launch of the digital app and the modernized information space of Olynthos, the most important city of Halkidiki in the 5th century BC.

The change in weather brought yesterday by unstable air masses from the northwestern Balkans with heavy rains and thunderstorms accompanied by a high frequency of lightning and local hailstorms, led the Civil Protection to issue on Wednesday afternoon a 112 warning message for severe weather in the areas of Thessaloniki, Pieria, Halkidiki and Kavala.

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The MITSIS HOTELS Group is expanding with the management of a new luxury 5* hotel resort in Halkidiki, according to the company's announcement.

Specifically, the Group entered into a 20-year Property Management Agreement with Happy Holidays S.A., with a horizon of completion and operation of the unit in 2025.

After initially announcing a weekend ban on takeaway food in Athens and Thessaloniki early on Saturday, Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis took it back later in the day. 

"The government assessed that the measure of temporary suspension of takeaway will create more confusion and will cause more problems," he said in a statement.

Short-term property rentals in Greece via leading online platform Airbnb are more or less an exclusively Greek affair these days.

A Romanian man vacationing with his family in Halkidiki, Greece, who got injured by a violent hail storm on Wednesday night will be discharged from hospital today, Romania's Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu said on Friday.

A third Romanian citizen was wounded by the storm that occurred on Wednesday in Halkidiki, Greece, and he was transported to the hospital, informs a press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) sent to AGERPRES.