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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 two 4.5-Richter earthquakes that shook the area of Arkalochori, Crete on Thursday are part of a sequence of aftershocks that followed a strong 5.8 Richter quake that hit Arkalochori on September 27, the head of the Geodynamics Institute of Athens professor Akis Tselentis stated to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.
The first tremor was recorded at 11:12 and the second at 11:38, with an epicentre 3 km south-southwest of Arkalochori.
Tselentis urged people to remain calm but careful and to follow all the recommended measures, while he did not rule out the possibility of a new tremor of up to 5.0 on the Richter scale in the same area.
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.