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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 – The number of dead from Greece’s worst-ever wildfires on July 23 jumped to 89 with the passing of a 35-year-old mother whose six-month-old daughter died in her arms from smoke inhalation and a 55-year-old woman being treated for extensive burns.
Margarita Dionysioti, who ran toward the sea in the village of Mati holding her daughter was being treated for injuries in the intensive care unit of the capital’s Evangelismos Hospital, where the other victim also died.
Dionysioti’s husband is a firefighter who was battling the inferno while his wife was trying to flee with their daughter as thick, blinding, choking smoke was responsible for killing many.
Nine more victims of the blaze are in intensive care. A child is being treated in Aghia Sofia hospital in stable condition and the fire service said the total number includes two unidentified remains of people who have not been sought by relatives but it’s uncertain if others are missing.
Most of the dead perished in the fire but a number drowned in the sea treading water waiting for help that never came as only seven Coast Guard vessels and two Navy ships were sent to help.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.