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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.
VOLOS, Greece – After strolling free six times in the past year on vacations from jail, Nov. 17 terror group mastermind assassin Dimitris Koufodinas’ petition for a seventh furough was nixed by a council of judges, after it appeared he would initially be granted the leave.
Koufodinas is serving 11 life sentences for being behind the killing of 23 people, including five Americans attached to the US Embassy over the decades before his group was broken up two years before the 2004 Athens Olympics, under pressure from the US and the international community.
He had asked for a four-day furlough starting Feb. 28, less than a month after his last leave when he was seen walking around Athens with a leader of the notorious anarchist group Rouvikonas, pointing out spots where he had people killed.
While his lawyer noted that Greek law allows anyone on jail, including serial killers, rapists, assassins and terrorists to ask for time off, there haven’t been any reports anyone but Koufodinas, who has support from within the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, has been approved.
His application was temporarily suspended after a prosecutor disagreed with a prison parole board’s recommendation to grant the request, noting that Koufodinas, who could be seen smiling and appearing to be gloating while he walked Athens, is unrepentant.
He was transferred from the capital’s high-security Korydallos Prison to an agricultural jail in central Greece last summer with critics of the government maintaining that SYRIZA wants him out.
His successive furloughs have prompted angry responses from the United States, before it backed off the tough talk following a US-Greece Strategic Dialogue in Washington, and with the US wanting a greater military presence in Greece.
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.