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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 – Continuing a crusade to take back the Exarchia neighborhood from anarchists and criminals, Greek police emptied another abandoned building of more than 100 refugees and migrants living there unlawfully.
The squat, known as Clandestina” and located at 42 Bouboulinas St. had been evacuated back in April this year but was reoccupied a few days later when the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA was in charge before being ousted in July 7 snap elections by New Democracy.
The refugees and migrants who were evicted were taken to the police’s aliens bureau for identification and slated to be sent to detention centers and camps around the country hosting more than 73,000 of them, the state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.
Police have relentlessly been ridding the squats of people living there with the notorious anarchist group Rouvikonas who had vowed to protect them backing away instead as Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he would end lawlessness and violence in the area.
A gritty, grimy, graffiti-covered neighborhood of cement buildings coveted nonetheless by Airbnb customers, driving out many residents, Exarchia is slated for an upgrade renovation including removing graffiti and a metro station.
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.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.