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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 — "Greece is proceeding on the basis of a very specific plan, with prioritisation of its needs and adapted to the country's financial capability, so as to meet the needs of all three branches of the Armed Forces," National Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos said on Friday in an interview with public broadcaster ERT.
Panagiotopoulos added that "we must also ensure the upgrade, support and modernisation of existing systems, not only make new purchases."
"The Army, Navy and Air Force have worked very hard under the coordination of the Chief of the National Defence General Staff. We discussed this plan and presented it to the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who immediately understood the need to better equip the Armed Forces and to cover the lost ground. He gave the green light for the increase of the defence budget and it was then passed by parliament. Now, we are proceeding with the implementation of this plan", the minister noted.
Regarding the acquisition of the French Rafale fighters, Panagiotopoulos stressed that "the talks started in September and we proceeded very fast because that was how it had to be done. We worked hard and the French side also helped. The strategic relationship between Greece and France is strong. We could not have achieved the completion of the negotiations so quickly, the vote on the contracts in Parliament, the signing of the contracts and their implementation, without the help of the French."
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.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.