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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 – Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister for Economic Diplomacy and Openness Kostas Fragogiannis on Friday emphasized the need for international joint actions to restart global economy and trade after the coronavirus pandemic, during a 17+1 video conference with China’s national coordinators.
The e-meeting by the China and Central & Eastern European Countries Cooperation (China-CEEC/17+1), which Greece joined in 2019, was organised by Chinese Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Qin Gang. Its focus was strengthening cooperation to address the financial and health implications of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fragogiannis outlined Greece’s management of the pandemic in its first critical stage, and the role that the 17+1 initiative could play in the Greek economy. He also called for a global approach based on collaboration, solidarity and transpanrency to deal with a global challenge.
China’s 17+1 initiative aims at strengthening and expanding cooperation with the states of central and eastern Europe. It includes 12 EU member states: Bulgaria, Greece, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, along with Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia.
Some eight conferences have so far been held in the context of the 17+1 initiative, while the first summit of heads of state and government was to take place in April 2020 in Beijing, but was postponed due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
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.
MADRID (AP) — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek eased into the Madrid Open’s round-of-16 by beating Sorana Cirstea 6-1, 6-1 on Saturday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump says he wants to hold a major campaign event at New York’s Madison Square Garden featuring Black hip-hop artists and athletes.
Following her compelling travel memoir, Unpacking for Greece: Travel in a Land of Fortresses, Fables, Ferries and Feta, the first in the series, author Sally Jane Smith continues her charming journey in the recently released second book, Repacking for Greece: A Mediterranean Odyssey.
NEW YORK – Hellenic Aesthetic offers a wide range of gift items year round, including a great selection of hostess gifts for Greek Easter, May 5 this year.