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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 – It wasn’t exactly the heist of the century – harkening back than 220 years when a Scottish diplomat, Lord Elgin – ripped off Parthenon Marbles pieces – but a Cypriot man was arrested for trying to take pieces of stone and marble from the Acropolis.
His name wasn’t given but The Cyprus Mail said he was 26 and wanted some souvenirs, which is a big no-no at Greek archaeological sites, some of which were plundered over the years by people who wanted treasures for themselves or to sell.
https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/03/06/young-cypriot-caught-trying-to-steal-pieces-of-acropolis/
Greek media reported he was spotted by a guard in mid-evening in the dark, removing pieces from the ancient site, police called and arresting him and said to have found a knife on his possession.
He was facing charges of violating the antiquities protection laws and for weapons possession, the report said, the case leading to some ironic headlines comparing him to Elgin, who sold what he stole to the British Museum, which kept them.
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.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.