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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.
ASTORIA – An Astoria resident, 78-year-old Elias Bournias, was robbed and assaulted around 10:30 AM on February 17 in front of a convenience store on 31st Street in Astoria.
Police said “Bournias, was purchasing cigarettes from the front window when a male suspect threw him to the ground and forcibly removed hundreds of dollars in cash from him. Bournias sustained an injury to the back of his head and was transported to Elmhurst Hospital, where he received stitches and was held overnight for observation,” according to ABC News.
Bournias was released the following day and was welcomed home by members of his family, which included his son, well-known musician Lefteris Bournias.
“We are taking him to his cardiologist. The stents in his heart were disrupted and he lost a lot of blood,” the son told The National Herald.
Police are searching for a suspect and they’re hoping surveillance video of the brutal attack will lead to an arrest.
The NYPD asks that anyone with information about the attack call its Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.
Police describe the suspect as a white male, approximately 35 years old, 5-foot-9, 200 pounds. He has a light complexion and brown eyes and had on a black jacket with white stripes on the sleeves and a white hooded jacket, blue jeans and tan boots.
The News reported that “Police say the suspect had been inside the deli for about 30 minutes and had seen Bournias take out the cash, and that’s when he pounced, tackling Bournias outside, punching him the face and fleeing down the street. Bournias was still in good spirits, and while he admits he was being careless by exposing his cash, he said he never saw the attack coming.”
Bournias told ABC “I didn’t expect at 10 o’clock in the morning, on busy street with cops all the time…I didn’t expect it, that’s why I was careless. I wasn’t careful.”
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.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.