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The Greek National Basketball Team trained on Saturday at PAOK Sports Arena in Thessaloniki, preparing for Sunday’s game against Great Britain (6:30 PM) in the EuroBasket 2025 qualifiers. Joining the team were Kostas Papanikolaou, Giannoulis Larentzakis, and Panagiotis Kalaitzakis.

Greece's Supreme Administrative Court, the Council of State, has rejected a petition by the wife and mother of a convicted priest who led a children's charity, seeking a return of the charity's control to the family through the annulment of two ministerial decisions that appointed a provisional administration.

A gynecologist in the northern city of Thessaloniki received a 30-month suspended prison sentence after being convicted of negligent homicide in the death of a 47-year-old woman following a hysterectomy in 2017. 

The appeals court reduced his sentence by six months due to his previously clean record. 

Police in Thessaloniki are investigating a suspected case of elder abuse after an 82-year-old man accused his son of beating him.

State broadcaster ERT on Tuesday reported that the man was admitted to the northern port city's Papanikolaou Hospital on Monday night with injuries to his head and ribs, which, he told the doctor who examined him, had been caused by his son.

A woman and her child were hit by a car on Papanikolaou Avenue, in western Thessaloniki, on Thursday. 

The accident occurred in the Pefka area under unknown circumstances, shortly after 1:00 pm.

An ambulance transported the woman and her child to Papageorgiou hospital. The severity of their injuries is not yet clear.

The head of intensive care units at a large Thessaloniki hospital says the system is under intense pressure from the rising number of coronavirus cases and that he fears a third wave of the pandemic  early next year.

"The situation is desperate, the ICUs are full," Nikos Kapravelos, head of the ICUs at the Papanikolaou hospital, told Skai TV Sunday.

The death toll from the coronavirus rose to 136 on Monday after two patients being treated in hospitals in northern Greece passed away, reports said. 

The two victims are an 80-year-old man who was in the intensive care unit of the Papanikolaou hospital in Thessaloniki and a 59-year-old woman in the ICU of Alexandroupoli's university hospital. 

A 51-year-old man became the seventh resident of the northern Greek town of Kastoria to die after contracting the novel coronavirus.

According to Greek media, the father of four was being treated at the Giorgos Papanikolaou General Hospital in the northern port city of Thessaloniki and had underlying health problems that contributed to his death.

For its Christmas group exhibition titled "Magical Strokes," the Skoufa Gallery presents selected pieces by 35 artists exploring childhood memories, Greek folk traditions and other nostalgic themes evoked by the holiday season. The impressive roster of participating artists comprises Jeff Koons, Patrick Rubinstein, Nikos Angelidis, Stathis Alexopoulos, Eva Anagnostou, Kalliopi Asargiotaki, Yior

A police operation was launched on Friday to crack down on potential criminal elements at the Diavata migrant reception center on the outskirts of Thessaloniki in northern Greece.

The operation was organized following a brawl at the camp on Thursday night in which four Afghan nationals were injured.