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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.
Trainose, the Italian company which runs the now-privatized Greek railways, is planning to launch a high-speed train called the Silver Arrow to cut the time for travel between Athens and the country’s second-largest city of Thessaloniki to 3 hours and 20 minutes, taking more than two hours off the tedious journey, the Athens News Agency ANA said.
The train is due to be shown off at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) on Sept. 8, when Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras is due to speak and reportedly claim he’s brought Greece toward recovery after reneging on anti-austerity promises and with the end of three international bailouts of 326 billion euros ($376.75 billion) that expired on Aug. 20.
Ironically, he had vehemently opposed the sale of state assets before taking power and then accelerated them on orders of international lenders although some hard-core elements in his party still don’t want any foreign businesses in Greece, which he said are crucial to recovery.
The train reportedly was already being sent from Italy to Thessaloniki to take test runs on a section of the track before being put into operation.
It will have a capacity of 480 seats but won’t be put into service until electrification of the final 52-kilometer stretch of the rail corridor is finished, expected sometime next year. Built by Alstom Ferroviaria, the train can reach maximum speed of up to 250 kilometers (155 miles) per hour.
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.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.