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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 – Two years after three international bailouts of 326 billion euros ($333.47 billion) to prop up Greece’s economy ended – and 12 years of monitoring spending and austerity measures, the country’s European Union lenders said the checking will end on Aug. 20.
That will cease what was euphemistically called “enhanced surveillance,” a term describing the Troika of the EU-European Stability Mechanism-European Central Bank making sure that targets were met to prevent automatic spending cuts.
“A difficult chapter for our country comes to a close,” said Finance Minister Christos Staikouras, reported Reuters. “Greece returns to a European normality and will no longer be an exception in the Eurozone,” the 19 countries in the 27-member EU who use the euro as their currency.
European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis and Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said the checking of Greece’s books could end because the New Democracy government had met commitments and reforms.
That means, said Staikouras, that Greece will now find it easier to lure more foreign investors, especially during the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, and reduce interest costs on borrowing from financial markets.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
ATHENS - A 35-year-old mother from the western city of Patras was found guilty in the murder of her eldest daughter, who was 9 at the time - with trials pending for the deaths of her other two children.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in the pivotal swing state of Wisconsin and three Northeastern states will have a chance to indicate their support or opposition to their parties’ presumptive nominees in presidential primaries Tuesday.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.