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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 – His leadership of the former PASOK Socialist party while Prime Minister brought the party’s end but George Papandreou has returned to reach a run-off to be the new head of the center-left Movement for Change (KINAL.)
The party is led by PASOK leftovers and had been run by Fofi Gennimata from 2015 until she passed away in October, a popular figure among her peers but who failed to galvanize support among voters.
European Parliament lawmaker Nikos Androulakis, 42, won the first round of the race for the leadership of a party that’s politically irrelevant with only 22 sets in the 300-member Greek Parliament, 19 of them from the old PASOK.
Androulakis got 37.06 percent of votes from KINAL supporters to 27.78 percent for Papandreou with a former PASOK minister, Andreas Loverdos, finishing third and left out. The run-off is Dec. 12.
KINAL officials said the turnout of party members and friends reached nearly 268,000, more than the 217,000 that voted in the last leadership contest, in 2017, said Kathimerini.
Loverdos thanked the tens of thousands who supported his candidacy, adding that the message sent by the polls was “renewal,” but that’s not borne out in the party’s support which hovers around 6-7 percent of the vote among voters.
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.