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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.
KOS – At least 40 migrants were let off on the shores of the island of Kos by two speedboats on Tuesday night. The speedboats were subsequently pursued and intercepted by Hellenic Coast Guard patrol boats and four people arrested as suspected traffickers.
In the first instance, a coast guard patrol boat spotted a polymer-hull speedboat sailing at high speed without navigation lights and letting off roughly 20 foreign nationals at Therma on Kos. The speedboat then attempted to escape toward the shores of Turkey and made repeated attempts to ram the coast guard vessel in the pursuit that followed. Coast guard officers fired warning shots at the outboard motors, immobilizing the speedboat and arrested the two foreign nationals driving it.
The second incident involved an inflatable speedboat, again without navigation lights, head toward the Prophet Zacharias area of Kos, where it again let off roughly 20 foreign nationals. A chase ensued and the craft was again brought to a standstill through warning fire at a safe section of the boat. The two persons in the boat jumped into the sea and were collected and arrested as suspected traffickers.
Of those let off the two boats, six people were arrested on shore and another 37 on board a KTEL intercity bus. Both vessels were confiscated.
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.