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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 – Over 7,000 asylum-seekers arrived at northern Aegean islands in November from the coast of Turkey, with over half arriving on Lesvos island in particular, officials said on Monday.
Of a total of 7,049 arrivals in November, 4105 crossed over to Lesvos, 1,120 to Chios and 1,637 to Samos islands.
From Monday, November 25 to midnight Sunday towards Monday, December 2, the migrant/refugee inflows appeared to have dropped compared to the week before. In this past week, 549 crossed over from Turkey to Lesvos, 152 to Chios and 252 to Samos.
On December 2 (today, Monday), starting from midnight to 15.00, no arrivals have been recorded in the entire North Aegean.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.
PARIS (AP) — The second retractable roof at Roland Garros will be inaugurated on the opening day of the French Open next month, organizers said on Thursday about a project planned with the Paris Olympics in mind.