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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 – While Greece’s singers, dancers, artists, musicians and others in the arts sector largely going unsupported during a more than year-long COVID-19 pandemic, street sellers of a magazine about the homeless will get a benefit.
The New Democracy government’s Labor and Social Security Ministry said vendors selling the magazine Sxedia (Raft,) most of whom were homeless or at risk of being so would get a retroactive 534-euro ($636) for January and February.
A joint ministerial decision will be published in the government gazette, said the business newspaper Naftemporiki, after Minister Costis Hatzidakis met with a delegation of the newspaper sellers and representatives of the NGO Diogenes, which publishes the periodical.
The publishers site said it's the only Greek street paper and is sold by people from vulnerable groups at a price of 4 euros ($4.76 each,) of which 1.50 euros ($1.79) goes to the seller so they can earn an income without begging.
“Sxedia is also an independent journalistic source of information and an instrument in the fight against all forms of social exclusion. It gives voice to the weak and is part of the solution in the effort to combat poverty and social exclusion,” the site said.
It characterized the paper as an independent source of :reporting, optimism and subversive humor … focusing on various subjects of interest to citizens and the society, including news reports, articles” and other topics.
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.
It was a close brush with death but a 40-year-old British tourist bitten by a deadly viper while at a yoga retreat on Cyprus is recovering after getting swift hospitalization to counteract the venom.
ATHENS - After Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system - with help from French, American and British fighter jet pilots - knocked Iranian missiles and drones from the skies during an attack, Greece is looking to create a similar protection method.
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.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Visitors to Disney's California parks could one day walk through the snow-covered hamlet of Arendelle from “Frozen” or the bustling, critter-filled metropolis of “Zootopia” under a park expansion plan approved by the Anaheim City Council.