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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 — Eleven unaccompanied refugee and migrant children are expected to leave Greece on Tuesday on a flight from Athens International Airport "El. Venizelos" to France, bringing the total number of unaccompanied minors relocated to EU member-states to more than 1,000.
Specifically, from April 15, 2020 to September 23, 2021, 995 unaccompanied minors were transferred, following actions by the General Secretariat for the Protection of Unaccompanied Minors, to Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Italy and Croatia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Finland. With Tuesday's relocation, the total number of unaccompanied relocated to the EU rises to 1,006.
According to a statement issued by the Deputy Minister for Migration, Sofia Voultepsi, and the Special Secretary for Unaccompanied Minors, Irini Agapidaki, "achieving this goal in the Unaccompanied Minors Transfer Programme is a proof of our country's ability to implement such projects, with security, respect for human rights, commitment to the protection of the younger generation and an integrative orientation."
In addition, "it demonstrates in the clearest way the joint commitment and effectiveness of the member states, the European Commission and the international partners in the protection of unaccompanied minors, reflecting the bonds of solidarity and understanding which are at the same time fundamental EU values."
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.