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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.
With winter approaching, refugees and migrants living in tents and detention centers on Greek islands are getting more agitated, demanding to be moved to the mainland, with one group from Afghanistan setting up a camp on the main square of Lesbos in protest.
The asylum seekers wanted to draw attention to their plights as human rights groups stepped up their criticism of the handling of the crisis by Migration Minister Yiannas Mouzalas, who even some in his own ruling Radical Left SYRIZA party have ripped.
Shopkeepers on Mytilini’s Sapphous Square, who had prompted the evacuation of the protesters who has squatted for nearly 20 days in the square, called the police and asked for them to be pushed out again, Kathimerini said.
That led to local supporters of far-right anti-immigrant groups screaming at the migrants and shoving reporters while violence seemed imminent, the paper said.
Riot police arrived and, with the help of a prosecutor and Lesbos Mayor Spyros Galinos, convinced the migrants to be escorted to the PIKPA camp with the promise to take another look as asylum applications and whether they could be taken to the mainland – although Mouzalas said there’s no chance they will.
More than 14,000 refugees and migrants are stuck on Greek islands where they were sent by human traffickers that Turkey allows to operate in the wake of a suspended European Union swap program and as Europe’s borders have been shut to them.
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.
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.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.