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The Constantinople-born diplomat, honorary ambassador Alexandros Alexandris, who had extensive knowledge of Greek-Turkish relations and specialized in minority issues, has passed away.

Alexandros Alexandros was born in Pera, Constantinople, and completed his education at the Great School of the Nation in Phanar.

Greek authorities on Tuesday feared that the murder of a man in a village of Xanthi, northern Greece, could spark a vendetta between two families, after two houses belonging to the alleged perpetrator and his brother were set on fire on Monday night.

The fire service said the fires in the two houses were caused by arson but no suspects have been detained.

A 17-year-old foreign national was arrested in northern Greece on Friday for transporting in a car six migrants who did not have the legal documents that would allow them to enter the country.

Thrace Plastics Co SA in the context of the accurate, valid and timely information of the investor community announces an extraordinary investment plan, which was approved by the Board of Directors.

Turkey on June 17 condemned a Greek court's decision to sentence the elected mufti, or Muslim official, of the city of Xanthi to time in prison with a three-year deferment of the sentence.  

A criminal court in the city of Thessaloniki sentenced Ahmet Mete to 15 months in prison for "disrupting public order by sowing public discord."

Police said on Friday that three men were arrested on Thursday night in the northeastern city of Xanthi for verbally abusing and threatening officers who were responding to a complaint over a disturbance of the peace and violations of the ban on gatherings to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Greek media reported one more death from Covid-19 in Greece on Tuesday, which brings the total number to 185.

The victim was a 74-year-old man from the town of Xanthi who was being treated in the University Hospital of Alexandroupolis.

The official death toll announced by the Health Ministry on Monday afternoon was 184, along with a total of 3,134 infections.

Four schools in the city of Xanthi and the nearby borough of Drosero in northeastern Greece were closed for 10 days on Wednesday after a teacher who works in all four tested positive for coronavirus.

The man, who's from the village of Echinos, is currently asymptomatic and has ben instructed to remain at home. The teaching staff at the four schools will also be tested.

Greek health authorities will run hundreds of molecular tests on residents of the wider area of the regional unit of Xanthi, northeastern Greece, starting on Thursday, as part of a targeted plan to eliminate "continuing infections in the last few days," General Secretariat for Civil Protection announced on Thursday.

The Democritus University of Thrace in northeastern Greece is seeking to build new, ecologically friendly student dorms and research facilities that will contribute to reducing the carbon footprint of its campuses in the towns of Alexandroupoli, Komotini and Xanthi.