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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.
With Greece awash with waves of refugees and migrants, the European Court of Human Rights ordered the payment of 4,000 euros ($4,550) to nine teenagers – six Syrians, two Iraqis, and a Moroccan – who arrived in the country in early 2016.
Media reports said the ECHR found they were held for between three and five weeks in police or border-guard stations before being transferred to migration authorities and that the detention centers in which they were kept were unsuitable, especially for children.
The court, however, rejected a claim by the migrants that the reception center to which they were eventually sent was overcrowded and unsanitary although human rights groups have complained many of them are, with Greece housing more than 70,000 refugees and migrants, including more than 15,000 on islands near Turkey.
The court said the influx of migrants to Greece at that time was an “unprecedented migratory and humanitarian crisis” and that the reception center had been created on an emergency basis but with activists continuing to complain the facilities are inhumane.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — With local elections across Turkey days away, legal experts are coaching thousands of volunteer election monitors on the rules they'll need to watch for fraud and ensure a fair vote.
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III on Thursday stressed the importance of friendship and acts of caring in a recorded message delivered to a traditional pre-Easter church service, which the monarch skipped as he continues to undergo cancer treatment.
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Win against Arsenal on Sunday and Manchester City's path to a record fourth straight English Premier League title becomes clearer.
According to Numerator’s 2023 Holiday Preview Survey, as many as 85% of Americans plan to buy candy, food, and other gifts for this year’s Easter celebration.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — With local elections across Turkey days away, legal experts are coaching thousands of volunteer election monitors on the rules they'll need to watch for fraud and ensure a fair vote.