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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.
“The fires in the Amazon do not threaten some far-flung corner of the planet but our common home, the Earth,” SYRIZA President and main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras said in a social media post on Saturday.
“Climate change, policies that ignore the environment in the name of selfishness and profit, lead to tragic developments for our life itself,” he noted.
Indifference to this threat was indifference to both the present and future of our children, Tsipras added, while leaders that overlooked this reality were essentially committing crimes against humanity.
SYRIZA’s president also criticised the Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, for failing to use the opportunity to support the French president on this issue during their meeting in Paris, and of failing to make even one statement in this direction.
“We heard nothing,” Tsipras said, and noted that Greece must also oppose the EU-Mercosur agreement so long as the extreme right Bolsonaro government fails to meet its environmental obligations.
Tsipras’ environmental sensitivity ‘4.5 years late,’ Petsas says
Government spokesperson Stelios Petsas on Saturday attacked SYRIZA President Alexis Tsipras over his statements concerning the Amazon fires and his criticism of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, noting that his “environmental sensitivity is 4.5 years late.”
He especially objected to Tsipras’ assertion that Mitsotakis had made no reference to the environment and failed to support French President Emmanuel Macron on this issue during their meeting in Paris, saying that this was untrue. Petsas also cited extracts from the Greek premier’s statements during the meeting, which referred to climate change, the environment and the role played by Macron in brokering an agreement on climate, while inviting the French president to set “even more ambitious targets to convert Europe into a truly green continent that leads innovation on energy transition issues.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.