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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 – Greece’s largest carrier Aegean Airlines, rated Best Regional Airline in Europe for seven straight years, has raised 200 million euros ($224.20 million) from a bond offering with investors eager to put money into the company’s plan to renew its fleet.
Aegean, a member of the Star Alliance airline group, will use 75 percent of the proceeds to partly finance down payments on new aircraft based on a deal with Airbus for smaller, single-aisle planes and add capacity for future expansion, the news agency Reuters said.
Aegean picked Airbus in March last year for an order of up to 42 aircraft worth $5 billion in one of the biggest investments by a private Greek company since the country’s debt crisis erupted in 2010 and with the company booming over its reputation.
The bond issue was 2.6 times oversubscribed with 60 percent allocated to private investors and the remainder to “qualified” investors.
The carrier plans to use 14 percent of the proceeds or up to 27.5 million euros ($30.84 million) to build a new 12,000-square-meter training center with flight simulators for its flight crews at the Athens International Airport (AIA). About 11 percent of the proceeds or up to 21.6 million euros ($24.23 million) will be used as working capital, the report added.
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 - There were no injuries nor damage reported despite its intensity as a 5.
LONDON, UK – Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark is set to marry her lawyer fiancé this fall in Athens, according to media reports – “after the couple previously postponed their wedding date twice,” Tatler reported, noting that Theodora, “who was born in London, started dating Matthew Kumar in 2016, with the couple announcing their engagement in November 2018.
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.