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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 – Sailing bans were in force at the ports of Piraeus, Rafina, and Lavrio on Tuesday morning, with ships forbidden to set sail for the Cycladic islands, the Dodecanese islands, and Crete due to the strong winds of up to 9 on the Beaufort scale in many parts of the Aegean Sea.
Ferries to the Saronic Gulf were operating as usual but the Rafina-Marmari, Agia Marina-Nea Styra and Thassos-Keramoti ferry lines were all closed.
Passengers intending to travel by ship on Tuesday are advised to contact local port authorities and travel agencies before setting out, in case there are cancellations or modifications to scheduled departure times and routes due to the bad weather.
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.