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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.
ATHENS – Greece’s counter-terrorism squad on Tuesday announced the launch of an investigation into anonymous threats to contaminate food in supermarkets with acid, posted on the Indymedia website on Monday.
The post under the headline “Greek Nemesis Act 3” is signed by the “Greenblack Arsonists” and threatens to sabotage specific products on supermarket shelves in Athens and Thessaloniki by injecting them with hydrochloric acid using a syringe. There are also photographs demonstrating how the foods will be tampered with.
This is the third year that the specific group has threatened to sabotage foodstuffs before Christmas, with similar threats posted last year and in 2013. On both previous occasions, the food products listed in the threat were withdrawn by the companies involved and the threat was shown to be hoax after investigation.
The group claimed that the acid-laced products of the three firms named will be returned to the shelves between Wednesday and Christmas Eve, at different supermarkets in Athens and Thessaloniki.
Police authorities have alerted the Hellenic Food Authority and the three companies named in the Indymedia threat so that they can withdraw their products as a precaution, as well as launching an investigation to find those responsible.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 13 people, authorities said.
TORONTO - Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter was banned for life from the NBA on Wednesday after a league probe found he disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and wagered on games, even betting on the Raptors to lose.
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his country would be the one to decide whether and how to respond to Iran’s major air assault earlier this week, brushing off calls for restraint from close allies.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday he strongly supports a proposal from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending crucial bipartisan support to the precarious effort to approve $95 billion in funding for the U.
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders over a two-day summit of the special European Council will discuss economic and competitiveness issues in Ukraine, Türkiye, the Middle East and Lebanon, stated Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis upon his arrival in Brussels on Wednesday night.