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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.
There is no substantive proof for the charge, one of the attorneys for the Portuguese football player accused of gang rape said on Thursday, after her client was released from detention on bail.
The player, 27, was indicted on Monday on charges of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl with his Nigerian manager, 40, who is testifying on Friday, has repeatedly insisted he was innocent. The girl has testified that they took advantage of her while she was under the influence of alcohol and raped her after luring her from a bar back to the footballer's house.
His attorney Marizanna Kikiri said that the girl's claims last Friday were not supported by the examination of a coroner who found no signs of violence, or by the conflicting testimonies provided by her and her female friend, who was at the house as well.
"I believe my client is innocent. The prosecutor's and the investigating magistrate's decision says it all," Kikiri said, referring to his release from jail on bond. The charge of rape "is not supported by any of the evidence," she said.
Sources said that the two girls gave clashing descriptions of the events at the player's house, that there were gaps in the 17-year-old's confession that could not be explained, and that she remained at the house until Saturday afternoon, while he had left early in the morning to go to practice.
The player's defense also provided the prosecutors with a message through social media he received on Sunday before his arrest, and after he had been sued by her. A person with an unidentifiable profile had demanded 15,000 euros from him, saying, "Good luck in jail. Or give me 15,000 euros and I will say nothing."
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.