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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 – The fire at Gerania mountains is receding, while some scattered fire pockets still exist within its perimeter, Fire Brigade Commander Lieutenant General Stefanos Kolokouris told Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) on Saturday.
With winds in the region having subsided considerably, he estimated that the fire, which started in Schinos, in the Loutraki area of Corinth prefecture on Wednesday night, will have been contained by tomorrow. The fire crossed prefectures to reach the Papagianneika community west of Megara in Attica over the last 48 hours.
Meanwhile, battling the fire around the Gerania mountains are a total of 278 firefighters, with 89 firetrucks, 10 rough terrain groups from the army, and 16 dowsing planes with 4 helicopters, in addition to water trucks and other auxiliary vehicles and the help of volunteers. The operation is being coordinated by the mobile operations center 'Olympos' which is in the vicinity.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
CALIFORNIA - The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide Thursday as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread.
NEW YORK — The third day of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial concluded Thursday after Trump's lawyers got their first chance to question a witness on the stand.
ATLANTA — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud.
ATHENS - Voters should see the whole picture when they go to cast their ballot in the European Parliament elections on June 9, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview on Thursday.