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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday approved the expansion of the Greece 2021 committee, which is responsible for designing and supervising a program of celebrations to mark the bicentennial anniversary of Greece's War of Independence against Ottoman rule.

A woman motorist was killed on Saturday when her car collided with a train near the city of Trikala in central Greece. 

Fire service workers removed the woman's body from the wreck of her vehicle following the collision on the level crossing at Pyrgetos. No personal details were made public. 

Something really unusual, at least for Greek standards, happened in the town of Trikala, central Greece.
After failing to complete a water utility project by the deadline, municipal authorities announced they will compensate residents and store owners that suffered because of the four-month delay. The decision will spare them from having to pay water bills for those four months.

Christos Christou, the head of the Greek branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, has been elected president of the international humanitarian agency.

In an announcement on Monday, MSF said Christou was elected in June and has already assumed his post.

More than 15,000 Greeks die every year of smoking-related causes yet Greek smokers annually spend between 25 and 30 million euros in total to purchase tobacco products, a study presented by the Hellenic Thoracic Society has shown.

Snow was in the air on New Year's Eve in Trikala and I was with a group of friends looking for some much-needed warmth and a good meal after a day touring the Thessaly city.

Greece is feeling the full force of the cold weather front called "Rafael" descending from northern Europe with freezing temperatures, local storms, cold winds and heavy rains expected to cover the entire country, Protothemareported.

A 5.0-magnitude tremor struck 31 kilometers southwest of the city of Trikala in central Greece on Friday morning, causing landslides on rural roads, according to state-run news agency ANA-MPA. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

The earthquake hit shortly after 10 a.m. at a depth of 1.8 kilometers, according to a preliminary reading of the Athens Institute of Geodynamics.

A 4.9-magnitude tremor struck 31 kilometers southwest of the city of Trikala in central Greece on Friday morning, according to a preliminary reading of the Athens Institute of Geodynamics.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre gave a reading of 5.1 for the same tremor.

The earthquake hit shortly after 10 a.m. at a depth of 1.8 kilometers.

A 17-month-old baby girl died at a university hospital in Larissa, central Greece on Thursday with severe burns to her body.

The child had been rushed to Larissa from a hospital in the nearby town of Trikala and was put in intensive care but died shortly after.

According to reports, the burns were caused by hot water and an investigation has been launched.