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Police in Oraiokastro, near Thessaloniki, on Tuesday were seeking the perpetrators behind the shooting of a 32-year-old man who had been on his way to work as a security guard the night before on his bicycle. 

A pregnant woman was killed when a train collided with a car on the section of the intercity railway network near Diavata, in northern Greece, shortly before 3 p.m. on Monday, a local news website reported.
The train had been conducting the Alexandroupoli-Thessaloniki service when the collision occured. 

Monday's Google Doodle paid tribute to Georgios Papanikolaou, the Greek medic and researcher who invented the smear test to detect early signs of cervical and uterine cancer.

The doodle, an illustration of him inspecting cells under a microscope, was available in 12 countries around the world.

Police in northern Greece were on Tuesday investigating an assault against two men, aged 39 and 47, on the street in the suburb of Nea Michaniona late on Monday by four attackers.

According to investigators, the two pedestrians came under attack by the four men who got out of a car and physically attacked them.

A buzzer-beating basket by Costas Papanikolaou gave Greece an 86-85 win in Georgia on Sunday as the Greeks mathematically clinched a spot at the 2019 World Championships in China.

A buzzer-beating basket by Costas Papanikolaou gave Greece an 86-85 win at Georgia on Sunday as the Greeks mathematically clinched a spot at the 2019 World Championships in China.

Shortages in doctors have created problems in the operations of key departments at several hospitals. 

"We have warned that the problem of understaffing at hospitals will explode and hospitals will collapse," Panos Papanikolaou of the Federation of Greek Hospital Doctors' Unions told Kathimerini.

Tzeni Argyriou looks back to a time when art was not regarded as the work of an individual but as a means of bringing communities together in "Anonymo," a piece that emerged from research conducted by the choreographer during her 2016-17 residency at the Onassis Cultural Center (OCC).

A young foreign national was found dead in Victoria Square in central Athens on Saturday.

His body was found by a passer-by shortly after 1 a.m.

Police, who did not disclose any more information about the identity of the victim, said he had suffered stab wounds to the stomach area.

An investigation has been launched.

The honorary consul for the Czech Republic in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Thursday sent a letter of thanks to the teams that rescued a Czech climber from Mount Olympus the previous day.