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...damage in Athens extends to banks. Since the violence ignited Saturday night, when a policeman fatally shot an Athens teenager, rioters have damaged at least 38 banks in the capital, with more than 150 targeted across all of Greece, as the rioting has spread to such cities as Thessaloniki, Larissa and Patras. (See pictures of the unrest in Athens...
...clashes erupted Monday in several midsized cities, on the island of Corfu, and in Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, where youth overturned trashcans, set them on fire, and threw rocks at a police station. Further protests are planned though this week. Organizers hope they will remain non-violent, but police are preparing for more clashes...
...Mustafa tells the story of Mustafa Kemal, who was born in 1881 in Thessaloniki, which is now in Greece but was then part of the Ottoman Empire. He became a soldier, and at 22, as a mere captain, he rebelled against the Sultan. The army banished him to faraway posts but couldn't quash him. A brilliant military strategist, he defeated the British at Gallipoli in 1915, and in 1919 he started a war for independence against occupying European allies that resulted in the founding of modern Turkey...
...governments won't be sending anyone to the area until moderates take over in Belgrade and Mitrovica. They may have a long wait. On May 1, Marijan Ilincic, a part-time judo instructor and chairman of the Association of the Descendants of the Serbian Fighters from the 1912-20 Thessaloniki Front, convened a small group of war veterans near a NATO post in Mitrovica and set fire to a U.S. flag. "Your country recognized Kosovo," Ilincic growled at a TIME reporter, whom he assumed to be an American. "You're not welcome here...
...THESSALONIKI Putting modern Greek cuisine on the gastro map is one of the newer events at the Sani Gourmet Festival (May 17-24), an ambitious yet laid-back mix of workshops, tastings and dinners at a chic marina resort near Thessaloniki. Christoforos Peskias, whose Athens restaurant 48 has one Michelin star, promises to outdo his debut last year, when he deconstructed the Greek salad with tomato sorbet, peppers and feta in jelly, cucumber in foam, onion in thin chips and olive puree. A fine line-up of Mediterranean chefs will complement the Hellenic focus. www.saniresort.gr...