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COSTAS KANTOURIS

The president of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) with the president of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece David Saltiel (C) and president of Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou (R) pose with photographs during their visit at the site of the future Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki on October 29, 2024. (Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP)
October 29, 2024, 5:22 pm
German president mourns Greek Jews killed in Holocaust at site of new Thessaloniki museum
Construction of museum, funded by German government, Greek municipal authorities and private donors, began earlier this year and is expected to take about two years
By COSTAS KANTOURIS
File: Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elpidophoros leads a celebration of St. Nicholas Day, at the St. Nicholas National Shrine at the World Trade Center in New York on December 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
January 29, 2024, 4:50 am
High-ranking Christian prelate warns of spread of antisemitism by church officials
Greek Orthodox leader Archbishop Elpidophoros makes comments in Thessaloniki on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEMETRIS NELLAS
A wildfire in Avantas, near Alexandroupolis, in the northeastern Evros region of Greece, August 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Achilleas Chiras)
August 23, 2023, 3:59 am
Firefighters in Greece find the bodies of 18 people in area burned by major wildfire
Fatalities are believed to be migrants who crossed border from Turkey, as dozens of fires ravage Greek countryside and other parts of southern Europe
By COSTAS KANTOURIS and Elena Becatoros
A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 bomber taking off from the Hmeimim airbase in the Syrian province of Latakia. (AFP Photo/Kosomolskaya Pravda/Alexander Kots)
March 1, 2020, 4:37 pm
Syria says 2 warplanes downed by Turkey as tensions soar
Ankara confirms incident, says it also hit Syrian air defenses after its drone was downed; 4 crew members reportedly eject safely over Idlib
By COSTAS KANTOURIS and andrew wilks
Migrants arrive at the village of Skala Sikaminias, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing on a dinghy the Aegean sea from Turkey on March 1, 2020. (AP/Michael Varaklas)
March 1, 2020, 10:18 am
UN says 13,000 migrants mass at Turkey’s border with Greece
Ankara’s decision to open borders makes good on longstanding threat to let refugees into Europe and comes amid escalation in Syria’s Idlib province that’s forced thousands to flee
By COSTAS KANTOURIS
Greek Orthodox faithful attend a memorial service for the victims of a forest fire, inside a church at Mati village, east of Athens, July 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)
July 29, 2018, 9:56 pm
Death toll from Greek wildfire reaches 91 as village grieves
‘There’s fewer of us now than usually,’ bishop says at Sunday prayer, after worst forest fire in Europe since 1900
By COSTAS KANTOURIS
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, center, and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades shake hands during their meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, on June 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
June 15, 2017, 8:14 pm
Netanyahu in Greece: Med pipeline would be ‘revolution’
In joint statement, Athens offers to act as ‘honest broker’ to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
By COSTAS KANTOURIS
Experts check the location where an unexploded World War II bomb was found 5 meters (over 16 feet) deep, at a gas station in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2016. Authorities in Greece's second-largest city on Sunday are planning to evacuate up to 60,000 residents from their homes so experts can safely dispose of the unexploded World War II bomb. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
February 11, 2017, 6:59 am
Greeks prep for big evac to dispose of WWII bomb
Allied explosive found buried beneath a gas station in Thessaloniki, forcing authorities to evacuate 75,000 during its removal
By COSTAS KANTOURIS
Illustrative photo of Islamic State militants, with an IS fighter waving the group flag in Fallujah, Iraq, west of Baghdad, June 28, 2015. (Militant website of IS, via AP)
February 3, 2016, 1:08 am
Greece orders 2 men to remain in custody pending IS trial
Police find knives, military-style waistcoat and rifle shoulder-strap among belongings of Swedish passport-holders headed for Syria
By COSTAS KANTOURIS
Refugees aboard a dingy set out from the Turkish coast heading for the Greek island of Chios, October 31, 2015. (AP/Emre Tazegul)
November 1, 2015, 3:33 am
Greek protesters target border fence after refugee deaths
More than 60 people, half of them children, have died in the past four days while trying to reach Greek islands
By Derek Gatopoulos and COSTAS KANTOURIS
Mina Beneroubi, a survivor of the Holocaust, right, places flowers on rails at the old train station of Thessaloniki, in the Greek northern town of Thessaloniki, on Sunday, March 15, 2015 (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
March 16, 2015, 1:30 am
Greek Jews remember transport to Nazi death camps
Crowd of 2,000 marches to Thessaloniki’s old railway station, where 50,000 were sent to their deaths 72 years ago
By COSTAS KANTOURIS
Former Greek prime minister George Papandreou looks at the photographs displayed in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem to commemorate the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
March 16, 2013, 7:03 pm
Thessaloniki Jews mark Nazi deportation
Jewish residents commemorate 70th anniversary of first roundup; community leader warns of rise of extreme right wing in Greece
By COSTAS KANTOURIS
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