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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 – With high-profile politicians being released from prison early after claiming health problems, two terminal cancer patients were denied, one of whom died after making an amateur video appealing to get out.
Supreme Court Prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou asked the authorities of the capital’s high-security Korydallos Prison to hand over medical files and documents of the patients after reports their request to get out were turned down despite deteriorating health.
Dimitriou’s intervention followed news reports regarding the two terminal cancer patients. One, whose age was not revealed, was suffering from lung cancer but has died.
The second man, aged 91, was eventually transferred to the Metaxa Cancer Hospital in Piraeus after his appeals for release were rejected. Sources not identified told Kathimerini that a probe was ordered to find out whether any members of a judicial board who turned down the release requests should be disciplined.
While one died and the other isn’t getting out, former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos has been walking around Athens, released from prison in July, 2018 after serving only five years of a 20-year sentence for stealing scores of millions of euros from defense contracts.
He said he had multiple health problems after heart surgery. His wife, also convicted, was released after she appealed that she was a mother and they had been seen dining at luxury restaurants together.
Former Thessaloniki Mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos, sentenced to life for embezzling 17 million euros ($19.02 million) served only 29 months before being released in 2015 on health grounds as well. In April, a court commuted an eight-year sentence for a second conviction to three years for the former track star and sprint champion.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
ALBANY – New York State Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Senator James Skoufis honored Greek Independence at the State Capitol on March 26, welcoming His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, who offered an invocation before the Senate.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".