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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 Polish captain of the 'Maersk-Launceston' cargo ship that crashed into Greek navy minesweeper 'Callisto' outside the port of Piraeus on Tuesday has been given until November 11 to prepare his testimony.
The Tuesday collision cut 'Callisto' in half and injured two crew members, leading to the captain's arrest for causing a maritime accident through negligence and for violating international rules on avoiding maritime collisions.
Meanwhile, the Piraeus Port Authority has requested that the court allows it three months to carry out its own investigation, and compile a dossier that will include experts' reports and data of the two ships’ movements at the time of the incident, recorded on the Marine Traffic global tracking system.
Maersk Launceston, currently banned from sailing, will be allowed to resume service after it has been inspected and given the all-clear.
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.