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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 cause of the Thursday afternoon blaze at an Athens hotel which sent three people to the hospital might be attributed to arson, Fire Brigade investigators reported on Thursday evening.
Two plastic containers with flammable liquid were recovered intact in the second floor corridor and another on the first floor, where the fire is thought to have started.
Investigators said this evidence suggests that someone intended to start the fire and help it spread fast across the entire building.
Firefighters earlier rescued 20 people from the burning hotel on Syngrou Avenue, in Athens’ Neos Kosmos district, on Thursday afternoon. Of these, three had to be rushed to hospital with serious respiratory issues caused by smoke inhalation.
The three taken to hospital included two women and one man, who had broken his leg in the panic that ensued after the fire broke out. Meanwhile, one of the two women is on life support in the intensive care unit, and is thought to be in critical condition.
According to the inspectors, the fire appears to have started in the corridor of the first floor, possibly outside the room that was damaged.
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.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S.
LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.