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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.
MYTILINI, Greece – Close to 200 refugees and migrants, mostly Afghanis, spent a night at Sappho’s Square after marching on Tuesday to Mytilini, protesting delays in their processing and living conditions at the Moria hotspot.
On Wednesday, the refugees temporarily moved so the Lesvos municipality could wash down the square, but a request for police to prevent them from setting up their tents again failed.
About 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, nearly 400 refugees and migrants, including nationals of Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, marched from Moria to the square facing the port, where nearly half spent the night.
The march and protests were fuelled by rumors that an Afghani refugee who could not be treated at Moria due to the inadequate and overcrowded facilities, was transferred to hospital and died there. The hospital administration refuted the rumor, stating that the man has a serious chronic heart condition and is at the intensive care unit of the Mytilini Hospital.
#migrants occupy Mytilini square to protest processing delays #Greecehttps://t.co/CW4rLhOZOI pic.twitter.com/iUahS6Tb6q
— ANA-MPA news (@amna_newseng) April 18, 2018
According to the latest information from the refugees, a large number of Arab refugees and migrants is heading from Moria to join the protesters at the square.
Conditions at Moria continue to be present challenges, as there are now over 6,500 migrants living there, exceeding by far the hotspot’s capacity, while the number of migrants and refugees on Lesvos is close to 9,000.
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.