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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 – Former Siemens Hellas general manager Prodromos Mavridis, sentenced to 15 years in jail for money laundering, was released on health grounds, it was announced on Monday.
Mavridis was sentenced in December 2019 for contract 8002 signed with the Hellenic Telecommunications Service (OTE). A total of 22 out of 54 defendants were found guilty in the same trial, including former top managers of Siemens, Siemens Hellas, and OTE. Mavridis was one of three whose appeal for a suspended sentence had been turned down.
The court imposed terms of restriction on his release; he is forbidden from leaving the country and has to show up once a month at the local police station.
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.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein's landmark New York sexual assault conviction was thrown out by an appeals court Thursday, and most of the dozens of civil cases filed against him since he became a central target in the #MeToo movement in 2017 have either been settled or dismissed.
NEW YORK (AP) — After prosecutors’ lead witness painted a tawdry portrait of “catch and kill” tabloid schemes, defense lawyers in Donald Trump’s hush money trial are poised Friday to dig into an account of the former publisher of the National Enquirer and his efforts to protect Trump from negative stories during the 2016 election.
ATHENS - Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday referred to the excellent and close cooperation with the Church in the context of its institutionally defined framework, from the town of Dilesi where he visited, along with Archibishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos, structures of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens.