General News
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.
Stepping up their coordination, ironically under the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA which promised to end any American military presence in Greece, United States forces joined with the host country in conducting an anti-terrorist drill on the island of Crete.
They will be held Dec. 2-7 with one in the port of Souda where the US Navy still has a base after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipas backed away from rabid promises to kick out the Americans and take Greece out of NATO, instead helping the defense alliance, even sending troops to Afghanistan although he swore he wouldn’t allow Greek forces to be sent to foreign soil.
It will be the largest ever anti-terror exercise in Greece, said Kathimerini, and is being codenamed Jackal Stone, as the annual exercise of the US Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR) which will include special forces from the Greek police and Coast Guard as the two countries are stepping up their relationship under Tsipras who said he would end it.
The scenarios involve an Islamic State terrorist attack on a large cruise ship and countererrorist operations on an islet outside Souda and in the city of Iraklio, Crete’s largest, according to a high-placed source who spoke to the newspaper on condition of anonymity.
The general command is exercised by the US commander at the Souda Bay Naval base, the most prominent such base for the US and NATO in the Eastern Mediterranean. Hellenic Police (ELAS) is the Greek operational commanding force.
Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, leader of the pro-austerity, marginal, jingositic Independent Greeks (ANEL) who are Tsipras’ junior coalition partner, has reportedly been wooing the US to have at least one more military base in the country.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.