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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 – A report to Parliament in the aftermath of a battlezone-like confrontation between police and demonstrators complaining of brutality during attempts to enforce COVID-19 measures said there were 623 protests in violation of a public gatherings ban, only 25 of which turned violent.
Citizens’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis briefed lawmakers about complaints of police allegedly using excessive force, one suspended after being shown in a video beating a man with an iron baton.
“There has been no escalation of police violence,” the minister said, despite reports to the contrary without explaining why, if that’s the case, that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis plans reforms including a requirement that police officers wear body cameras to record incidents.
“What matters is the scale, the rate of occurrence, the trend,” he added, as the major rival SYRIZA said police are nearly out of control after the Leftists, during a 4 ½-year reign, let violence in some areas spiral.
Chrysochoidis, referring to the all-out brawl in Nea Smyrni that saw one officer pulled off the back of a motorcycle and severely beaten, said that while what the public saw was “appalling,” that, “We would be doing ourselves and common sense an injustice if we said that this was a common occurrence.”
“The prime minister has apologized, and I want to apologize to any victims of police arbitrariness,” he said, not calling it violence or brutality.
“The police only record the facts and nothing more. It does not judge, it does not evaluate, it does not lie,” he said, responding to claims of efforts to cover up what happened and other incidents, said Kathimerini.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 13 people, authorities said.
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders over a two-day summit of the special European Council will discuss economic and competitiveness issues in Ukraine, Türkiye, the Middle East and Lebanon, stated Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis upon his arrival in Brussels on Wednesday night.
NEW YORK – Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) on April 17 announced the third annual Summer for the City, welcoming New Yorkers to hundreds of free events over three months.
ATHENS – Travel designers and experts, members of the media, creatives and senior executives of Louis Hotels were transported to the heart of Greek essence at a sophisticated corporate presentation of the Exclusive Collection by Louis Hotels at Fuga in Athens.
BUFFALO - There are Greek restaurants in Buffalo that have the name of Vasilis Panagopoulos but he said that the opening of The Original Vasilis Restaurant is the only one that still owns and is proud of it.