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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.
Hearings concluded over a criminal organisation involved in the fraudulent misappropriation and black-market sale of expensive anti-cancer medication on Tuesday night, with the testimonies of the alleged criminal ring leader and another 20 people charged in connection with the case.
The 70-year old Egyptian who, according to the casefile was the head of the ring, and another person charged with direct complicity were sent directly to jail.
After the conclusion of the testimonies before the corruption magistrate, six persons were placed in custody. Besides the alleged ringleader, they include the supervisor of two nurses at the Laiko Hospital, a retired male nurse from the same hospital and a pharmacist. Additionally, two suspects, a doctor and a pharmaceuticals wholesaler were placed under house detention.
The charges against those implicated in the affair include those of organising and participating in criminal fraud, sale of narcotic substances, embezzlement, money laundering and the issue and use of false medical certificates.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.
PARIS (AP) — The second retractable roof at Roland Garros will be inaugurated on the opening day of the French Open next month, organizers said on Thursday about a project planned with the Paris Olympics in mind.