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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.
Relatively calm so far this summer, the overcrowded and troubled refugee and detention center on the island of Lesbos erupted again on June 29 when police arrested 13 asylum seekers from ages 14-32 on charges of causing grievous bodily harm during a wild fracas.
The suspects, who were mostly Afghans, were involved in a series of violent physical altercations over religious differences on June 28, in which sharpened wooden and metal objects were used as weapons, said Kathimerini.
Seven people were reportedly injured. Moria has the capacity to host 3,500 people but is currently sheltering more than 5,500 and new arrivals are coming all the time from nearby Turkey, which allows human traffickers to operate during a suspended swap deal with the European Union since 2016.
Authorities said that there has been a significant spike in arrivals over the last month and that the number of asylum seekers at the camp in May was about 4,500 people, the only option left them to prevent being returned to Turkey where they first went after fleeing war and strife in the Middle East, particularly Syria’s civil war.
Some 70,000 are stuck in Greece, including more than 15,000 on Greek islands after the EU closed its borders to them and reneged on promises to help take some of the overload from Greece during its more than nine-year-long economic crisis.
A total of number 1,048 asylum seekers arrived on Lesbos in June in 2018, significantly less that the 1,523 that landed on the island from June 1-29 this year, the paper said.
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.