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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 — An elderly Greek islander who unwillingly gained international fame for helping newly landed refugees at the height of Europe’s immigration crisis has died aged 90.
The United Nations refugee agency expressed sorrow at Lesbos resident Maritsa Mavrapidou’s death Wednesday. It called her an “international symbol of solidarity” in a statement late Thursday
Mavrapidou became famous after being photographed in 2015 with two other elderly women in the village of Skala Skamnias, nursing a baby that had landed with its mother on a nearby beach after crossing from Turkey in a migrant boat.
The three women and other Lesbos residents were reportedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 for their compassion toward arriving migrants.
Mavrapidou never felt comfortable with her fame, arguing that she had only done the decent thing.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
BAYSIDE, NY – Daughters of Penelope (DOP) Ilion Chapter 135 continues to keep the light shining bright within.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.