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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 – Greece’s jobless rate rose slightly, to 17 percent in April, when a now eased lockdown had tighter restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, including barring restaurants from serving customers inside.
That was up 0.2 percent from the previous month, data from the country's statistics agency ELSTAT showed, with seasonally adjusted data showing 762,553 were officially unemployed, with those aged under 24 the hardest hit as usual, said Reuters.
The rate for those 15-24 was 46.8 percent, rivaling the record during a near decade-long economic and austerity crisis, worsened by temporary closings of non-essential businesses, with the government propping them up, and workers, with subsidies.
That was a big jump though from the 33.6 percent rate for April of 2020 as the pandemic was beginning to surge through the country and world. Greece’s jobless rate, which hit a record high of 27.8% in September 2013, has been falling but remains the highest in the Eurozone, the report added.
Women were far worse off, with a 21.4 percent jobless rate compared to 13.6 percent for men.
Joblessness affected women more than men, with the respective rates in April at 21.4% and 13.6%, the data showed but the economy is hanging tough despite the health crisis, helped by investments.
Unemployment on an annual basis shrank 2.3 percent in the first quarter, slower than a downwardly revised rate of 6.9 percent the last quarter of 2020.
The European Commission raised its latest forecast for Greece’s economic growth this year to 4.1 percent from 3.5 percent and projected a 16.3 percent jobless rate in 2021 and 16.1 percent for 2022.
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.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is out to win votes by scoring some laughs at the expense of Donald Trump, unleashing mockery with the goal of getting under the former president's thin skin and reminding the country of his blunders.
VENICE, Italy — Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature have collided over the centuries to produce an otherworldly gem of a city.
ATHENS - Expecting another record year in tourism to surpass the numbers in 2023 in arrivals and revenues, Greece’s infrastructure - particularly on overwhelmed islands - isn’t adequate to deal with the demands even as more resorts keep opening.
ATHENS - One of the suspected ringleaders in an Olympiakos hooligan gang that attacked riot police, one of the officers dying from injuries suffered when shot in the leg with a flare, was rushed to a hospital after reportedly trying to kill himself.