Mediterranean

A month after 12 students at Greece's largest university were killed in a train crash, messages of grief across the campus are tinged with rage.

"This crime will not be forgotten," a note on a makeshift memorial at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki reads.

Police in Thessaloniki are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in a car near the northern port city's cemetery on Tuesday morning.

The woman, who has not been identified, appears to have sustained a head injury that does not seem to have been self-inflicted. According to reports, authorities are treating her death as the result of foul play.

Police are investigating an alleged attack on a teacher at a vocational high school (EPAL) in Thessaloniki, northern Greece.

The teacher reported that two young men, who may be out-of-school youths, broke into her classroom while she was teaching. When she asked them to leave, they kicked the door, causing her to sustain injuries to her abdomen.

A baby who was rescued from under the rubble in the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes and brought to the southern province of Mersin for treatment was handed over to his parents 50 days later.

Katibe and Naser Alkhalef had just moved to the southern province of Kahramanmaraş with their three children before the devastating quakes hit the region.

A total of 3,821 buildings have been found to be heavily and moderately damaged in the quake-hit southern province of Adana, and a decision has been taken to demolish these structures.

In the 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes on Feb. 6, 13 buildings collapsed in Adana, where 418 people lost their lives.

A month after a deadly collision between a passenger and a freighter train in northern Greece that killed 57 people, Hellenic Train announced on Wednesday it would restart freighter train services later today.

The decision followed marathon consultations with state-run OSE, the company responsible for rail infrastructure.

Antiquities found during the construction of the metro system in the northern port city of Thessaloniki are being put back into place following their controversial extraction for the needs of the much-delayed project about a year ago. Among these is part of the Decumanus Maximus, the central east-west avenue of late Roman/early Byzantine Thessaloniki.

In the southern province of Hatay, which experienced massive destruction in the Feb. 6 earthquakes, construction works have been accelerated so that earthquake survivors could settle into prefabricated temporary housing for the Ramadan Feast.

Many hotels in the southern province of Antalya, the capital of tourism, embraced quake survivors after the earthquake disasters that affected 11 provinces.

A total of 200 accommodation centers across the city are hosting 85,000 disaster victims.

The European Court of Justice has once again condemned Greece over its environmental performance, and Thessaloniki more specifically over its air quality.

The court on Thursday found very high levels of microparticles in the air of the northern city, which Greece has failed to tackle over the last decade.