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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 Hellenic Parliament, in a plenary session on Thursday, ratified four concessions allowing the exploratory drilling and extraction of hydrocarbons in regions of the Ionian Sea and waters west of Crete.
Lawmakers approved the draft bill for the ratification of the agreement with:
– Hellenic Petroleum SA for the concession of exploration and production rights in Block 10 in the Ionian Sea (180 votes in favour, 25 against, 75 abstentions)
– Repsol Exploracion SA and Hellenic Petroleum SA for offshore drilling in the ‘Ionio’ region of Western Greece (181 votes in favour, 27 against, 74 abstentions)
– Total E&P Greece B.V, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Greece (Crete) B.V and Hellenic Petroleum SA for offshore exploratory drilling and production rights in the sea region ‘Southwest Crete’, Greece (172 votes in favour, 36 against and 74 abstentions)
– Total E&P Greece B.V, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Greece (Crete) B.V and Hellenic Petroleum SA for offshore exploratory drilling and production rights in the sea region ‘West of Crete’, Greece (172 votes in favour, 36 against and 74 abstentions)
The concession contracts were signed by the previous SYRIZA government and tabled in Parliament without any change by the current government. SYRIZA nevertheless abstained during the vote on the ratification of the contracts and four SYRIZA MPs voted against them.
All four draft bills were supported by the Movement for Change (KINAL) party, while the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and MeRA25 voted against. Elliniki Lysi voted for the two contracts in the Ionian but against those west of Crete.
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.