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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.
KERKYRA. A rescue operation continued on Monday to locate refugees and migrants that were on a vessel that sank on Saturday morning, 13 nautical miles southwest of the island of Paxi in the Ionian Sea.
According to Athens-Macedonian News Agency sources, the 21 people rescued from the shipwreck – 10 from Afghanistan, two from Syria, four from Pakistan, two from Iran, two from Iraq and one from Somalia – were sent to Preveza are in good health.
The bodies of another 12 persons that died when the ship went down have not yet been identified, while there are no children among the recovered dead and those rescued.
According to the testimonies of survivors, there were approximately 50 people on the boat.
Two coast guard vessels assisted by a helicopter were participating in the search and rescue operation on Monday but the sunken vessel, which sank with many people still inside, had not been located.
A preliminary investigation was underway but authorities were only able to verify that the vessel was bound for Italy, while neither its point of departure nor the manner in which the migrants and refugees were taken there had been officially ascertained.
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.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.