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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 – The criteria wasn’t explained but Athens will take it – rated the 6th Most Beautiful City in the world, ahead of renowned places such as Paris, Budapest, Venice, Boston, Kyoto, Florence, Amsterdam and Sydney.
That was according to the World of Statistics and immediately drew the attention of Hellenophile web sites around the world touting Greece’s capital city that’s not known for beauty or charm, but has a buzz.
Athens was behind only Venice, Rome, Barcelona, Prague and New York and ahead of Budapest, Vienna, Bordeaux and Milan, the rating coming as Greece is on a path to bust tourist records during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Ministry of Tourism had begun a major campaign to promote Athens as a destination after years of seeing it being a jumping-off point to get to islands.
The slogan for the city is Greekend: End Your Week Like a Greek to go along with the national campaign of All You Want is Greece which was designed to promote the beautiful side of life in Greek cities.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.