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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.
NAFPLIO – With short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb turning thousands of apartments and homes in Greece into places for tourists, a judge in the popular southern Greece harbor town of Nafplio prohibited a property owner from doing that.
The Athens daily paper Ta Nea said that the judge ruled in favor of an injunction requested by other tenants of the building where the apartment is located, and against the owner who was told to abstain “from repeating its commercial exploitation as a tourism dwelling, and to restrict its use only as a residence.”
That has set off a buzz as to whether it could be ruled unlawful across the country as tenants in Athens and other cities are being forced out of their apartments that are turned into short-term rentals, changing the entire character of some neighborhoods.
Foreign investors, especially Chinese, are also buying up properties and then using them for Airbnb and using other short-term rental sites, a practice that has driven up rents in nearby properties as people are struggling to recover from a near decade-long economic crisis.
Nafplio, the first capital of Greece, is a popular all-year-round tourism and holiday town on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese where short-term renting has taken over, the effect of the ruling not certain on those.
The first-instance court said there would be a fine of 1,000 euros ($1107.82) for every violation and the ruling is expected to lead to other challenges against the practice around the country, the rentals raking in huge profits for owners.
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.