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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 — Turkey must respect the decisions of the European Council for de-escalation of tension, and prove this consistently, if it wants to enter talks with Greece, Alternate Foreign Affairs Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said on Friday.
In an interview with Athina 9.84 FM, Varvitsiotis said among other things that watching President Donald Trump followers storm the Capitol on Wednesday shocked the world. President-elect Joe Biden "has a very difficult job ahead of him, to move towards a national reconciliation in his country, which is deeply divided right now."
Asked to comment on the EU's role in signing for and distributing Covid-19 vaccines, he said, "Even thought it wasn't among its exclusive duties, the EU assumed a very important responsibility: the role of providing vaccines to all of its member-states, preventing the rise of competition among them."
On Brexit, Varvitsiotis said that the historic agreement with the EU was "a Christmas gift". Greece, the minister said, "has been preparing for it in multiple ways and comprehensively" and "collaboration with the United Kingdom is close to facilitate relations and transactions between us even more."
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
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.