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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.
HERAKLION, Crete – A Crete prosecutor on Friday released two women who were detained on Thursday after the drowning of an 8-year-old Israeli girl at the swimming pool of a hotel the women were managing temporarily.
The two foreign nationals, 42 and 56, were arrested for manslaughter out of negligence after the incident at Chersonissos, east of Iraklio on Crete, on Wednesday evening.
The girl’s family departed for Israel on Friday with the body of their child, which was transfered from the Heraklion University Hospital. The hospital’s director, Giannnis Fanourgiakis, also told Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) that “as far as the cause of death is concerned, all evidence correlates with drowning.”
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.