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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 – Trying to deal with a refugee and migrant crisis with several fronts, Greece’s new New Democracy government now said will provide more secure shelters for minors without parents or guardians and better housing over the next few months.
The data shows that there are 4,779 of them in Greek detention centers and camps housing some 78,000 refugees and migrants across the country but only 1200 insecure structures. There are more than 35,000 refugees and migrants on islands near Turkey which has let human traffickers keep sending them during an essentially-suspended swap deal with the European Union.
The number of unaccompanied minors has surged in recent months, reaching its highest point since the start of the refugee crisis in 2015, said Kathimerini, as the number of daily arrivals from Turkey – where they had gone fleeing war and strife in their homelands in hopes of getting to more prosperous countries in the European Union before the bloc closed its doors – is surging.
That leaves them only the option of seeking asylum in Greece or being returned to Turkey and an unknown fate as Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he wants to separate applications from refugees and economic migrants and send 20,000 back to Turkey.
There have been repeated promises for better shelter for the unaccompanied minors by authorities, most from the former ruling Radical Left SYRIZA which was in power when the crisis began but nothing has happened about it yet.
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.
NEW YORK – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus attended a press conference at the Consulate General of Greece in New York on March 28 to continue to spread the word about postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections.
LONDON - A British Airways flight that started in Athens on January 3 just missed hitting a drone over the Kent countryside in England, coming within 5 feet at a height of 9,600 feet, the plane carrying 180 passengers and traveling 250 miles an hour.
It won’t pass through some French cities and towns that didn’t want it but the Olympic Torch for the Paris 2024 Games will be lit April 16 in Olympia by priestesses wearing outfits that some on social media found weren’t just right.
ATHENS - There were no injuries nor damage reported despite its intensity as a 5.