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Through a bleak picture of abandonment, anyone can relive their own past, adding their own black-and-white images of another era. And if one is more observant, the memories will be lifted from the depths of the mind, while the colors that had once faded will take even for a while their own intense palette of memory. Marinos Charalampopoulos takes us on a tour of an abandonedd Greek factory with a long and interesting history.

Deputy Minister of Civil Protection and Crisis Management, Nikos Hardalias, the representative of the health ministry, Professor Sotiris Tsiodras, as well as a team of experts are expected to arrive in Xanthi, northern Greece, on Friday in order to coordinate emergency measures in the area.

The idea of a private doctor in Xanthi, cardiologist Komnenos Gambras, combined with the expertise of his friend, Anestis Papachristou, a self-taught computer engineer, led to the creation of a voluntary group of seven people to make plastic masks using a 3D printer to help medical and nursing staff at the city's hospital.