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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 – Smoking is the leading cause of death for men in Greece, accounting for 25 percent fatalities – as well as 7.5 percent for women – and makes the effect of COVID-19 even riskier and deadlier.
The National Public Health Organization (EODY) said smokers are up to 1.4 times more likely to develop severe symptoms from COVID and 2.4 times more likely to be admitted to intensive care, put on ventilators or die.
The data was presented by experts of the Hellenic Cardiological Society and the Hellenic Pulmonary Society marking World No Smoking Day on 31, this time focusing on the effects of cigarettes on the environment.
Society President Stylianos Loukidis said that smoking is just as much as pandemic as COVID – the pandemic has killed nearly 15 million people worldwide in two years, matching that of the effects of smokig.
He also said that the smoking crisis “has lasted for a century, claiming lives, burdening health systems, public health in general and the environment,” with Greece still among the countries with the highest rate of smoking.
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.
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.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.