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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 – Greek police said they have identified eight people who tore into the Athens University of Economics and Business on Oct. 29 and assaulted Rector Dimitris Bourantonis in his office, hanging a sign around his neck in support of squatters.
They were not named, as usual, but could face a range of charges including membership in a criminal gang, abduction and coercion over the attack that set off outrage and led the New Democracy government to propose tougher security measures for campuses.
The police department’s preliminary investigation, conducted by Attica’s Security Directorate, also includes charges of unlawful detention, violence, disruption to the operation of a public service and damage to property, said Kathimerini.
The eight suspects were among the group of about 15 hooded assailants who hurled verbal abuse and threats against Bourantonis and then boasted in a photo posted on social media.
They also smashed computers and equipment and sprayed slogans on the walls and furniture in another incident of violence at a Greek university that has seen professors attacked and even beaten.
The new measures to safeguard those on the school grounds included setting up campus police forces, installing surveillance cameras, identification cards for entrance and tougher penalties for offenders after the government ended a policy of asylum on college property that saw police barred in most cases for lesser crimes.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.