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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.
NEW YORK – A robbery at gunpoint took place on May 4 in Central Park, just “500 feet” from Andrea Catsimatidis, the Manhattan Republican Party chair and daughter of billionaire John Catsimatidis, the New York Post reported.
She posted on Twitter: “I’m finally back in NYC and someone was just robbed at gunpoint 500 feet from me. What a nice welcome home!”
The victim was a 67-year-old woman who was “walking near Swan Lake, at Central Park South and Center Drive on the Upper West Side, when a man on a bike approached and said, ‘I need to take your purse,’ before flashing a black handgun, according to police,” the Post reported, adding that the victim asked “Can I at least keep my phone?”
“But the armed suspect allegedly refused and said, ‘No, I need your purse right now,’” the Post reported, noting that “she handed it over, and the suspect took off, cops said,” and “the cellphone was later found nearby on the ground.”
The robbery took place around 3:40 PM in broad daylight and Catsimatidis told the Post that “she got a Citizen app notification about the robbery, though she didn’t witness it firsthand.”
“Alerts keep popping up on my phone of violent crimes happening feet away from me and I keep thinking that I’m getting lucky, and it’s only a matter of time until it happens to me,” Catsimatidis said in a text message to The Post. “This never used to happen, this is not the NYC I grew up in.”
Cops said that “the suspect is around 5 feet 6, 150 pounds and in his 20s,” the Post reported, adding that “he is being eyed in another gunpoint robbery from last Friday inside the park by East 72nd Street and East Drive, police sources said.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 13 people, authorities said.
TORONTO - Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter was banned for life from the NBA on Wednesday after a league probe found he disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and wagered on games, even betting on the Raptors to lose.
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his country would be the one to decide whether and how to respond to Iran’s major air assault earlier this week, brushing off calls for restraint from close allies.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday he strongly supports a proposal from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending crucial bipartisan support to the precarious effort to approve $95 billion in funding for the U.
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders over a two-day summit of the special European Council will discuss economic and competitiveness issues in Ukraine, Türkiye, the Middle East and Lebanon, stated Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis upon his arrival in Brussels on Wednesday night.