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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 households, hospitals, schools, airports and petrol stations are included in the group of protected natural gas consumers and will be the last in any series of supply cuts, according to an emergency plan drafted by the energy watchdog.
The plan, put into consultation on Monday, will be implemented in case of emergency and also includes certain public buildings, such as the Parliament, the Presidency of the Republic, municipalities and independent authorities, small- and medium-sized enterprises with a consumption of less than 10,000 MWh and tele-heating installations.
According to the plan, natural gas supply will be cut to large industries, exports, electricity power units (not necessary), industries using natural gas for co-production, small industries and commercial enterprises.
The energy cut plan includes a series of measures designed to address any problems, starting with recommendations for voluntary cut of natural gas consumption and seeking emergency LNG cargoes and use of diesel oil, raising electricity production from lignite units and hydroelectric stations, emergency electricity impots, etc.
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.
It was a close brush with death but a 40-year-old British tourist bitten by a deadly viper while at a yoga retreat on Cyprus is recovering after getting swift hospitalization to counteract the venom.
ATHENS - After Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system - with help from French, American and British fighter jet pilots - knocked Iranian missiles and drones from the skies during an attack, Greece is looking to create a similar protection method.
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.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Visitors to Disney's California parks could one day walk through the snow-covered hamlet of Arendelle from “Frozen” or the bustling, critter-filled metropolis of “Zootopia” under a park expansion plan approved by the Anaheim City Council.