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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
NEW YORK — A suspected gas explosion partially collapsed a home in the Bronx, setting the structure ablaze and killing a woman and injuring eight other people, including five police officers, officials said.
The blast happened around 11 a.m. at a home on a block of three-story residences in the Woodstock neighborhood, the fire department said.
Mayor Eric Adams said eight people were injured, revising an earlier count from city officials that said nine had been reported injured. Two people were hospitalized with serious injuries, Adams said.
Authorities identified the woman who died as Martha Dagbatsa, 77, who lived in the home. An 82-year-old woman and a 68-year-old woman were in the hospital, police said.
Video and photos showed that part of the home collapsed, with heavy smoke pouring from it and adjoining properties.
The New York Police Department released footage from an officer’s body camera that showed the officer running to get into the home and joining other officers in pulling debris off a woman, including what appeared to be a couch.
About 100 firefighters and EMS workers responded.
Officials said gas service was shut off to the area while the cause was being investigated.
It was the second deadly fire in the Bronx in less than two weeks, following the high-rise apartment blaze that killed 17 people on Jan. 9, all due to smoke inhalation.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.