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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 – Four members of the extreme-right group Combat 18 that officials said are neo-Nazis have reportedly admitted guilt over a series of attacks aimed at anarchist squats and Jewish memorials.
Seven suspected members of the group, who carried out assaults prosecutors had said during the long-running trial of the Golden Dawn party leaders and dozens of members were similar to those used by that ultra-extreme right testified on March 10 as they faced charges of running a criminal organization.
The four who Kathimerini said professed some guilt were remanded in pre-trial custody while the other three were given conditional release.
The group, which is believed to be an offshoot of the British Combat 18, has been tied to more than 30 attacks.
A 35-year-old gas station employee from Ioannina, northwestern Greece, is believed to have coordinated the group’s attacks using a fake profile on Facebook. He denied being the mastermind although he reportedly had earlier testified that he picked the targets and gave the orders for the attacks although no reason was cited.
Eleven suspects had been rounded up and were said to be talking about their aims and intentions and providing key details about its operation and structure and attacks against migrants and left-wing activists.
Among the attacks they are said to have admitted to are on a migrant squat in the Athens district of Exarchia, an anarchist stronghold, and on a leftist hangout in nearby Patissia, which houses many migrants and refugees.
The group’s modus operandi has been to splash gasoline around the premises of a target and set it on fire or to toss makeshift bombs. The 11 suspects were led before a public prosecutor on March 7, who pressed criminal and other charges against them for a series of offenses, including acts committed as part of the action of a criminal organization.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.