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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 first contract on hospital improvements that are funded by Recovery and Resilience Fund resources was signed in Athens on Friday.
The agreement, at a contractual expenditure of 4.2 million euros, relates to renovation and reconstruction of health spaces and hospitalization units at four public hospitals: Tzannio General Hospital of Piraeus, Metaxa General Hospital of Piraeus, Attikon University General Hospital and the Psychiatric Hospital of Athens.
Works will improve the quality of services and meeting public needs, and are expected to be completed by the end of this year (2023).
Signing were the governor of the 2nd Health Region of Piraeus & the Aegean, Christos Roilos, and the contractor “Stathis Kokkinis Technology 2020 SA”, in the presence of Health Minister Anastasia Kotanidou. The Health Region thanked former Health Minister Thanos Plevris and former Alternate Health Minister Mina Gaga “for their decisive contribution to the speedy completion of procedures for inclusion of the projects (in the funding) and their auctioning.” They also thanked Greece’s privatization fund HRADF and the Health Region’s services department.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians began voting Friday in a six-week election that's a referendum on Narendra Modi, the populist prime minister who has championed an assertive brand of Hindu nationalist politics and is seeking a rare third term as the country's leader.
ATHENS - "Turkiye must respect the European acquis, which fully includes the participation at all levels of the Republic of Cyprus," Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis stressed on Friday in an interview with "Kanali Ena", commenting on the conclusions of the European Council, which link the progress of EuroTurkish relations with developments in the Cyprus issue.
ATHENS - Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, in an announcement on Friday, expressed "deep concern and its unequivocal condemnation of the new escalation of tension in the Middle East with Israel's show of force against Iran.
VENICE, Italy (AP) — A pair of nude feet — dirty, wounded and vulnerable — are painted on the façade of the Venice women’s prison chapel.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians began voting Friday in a six-week election that's a referendum on Narendra Modi, the populist prime minister who has championed an assertive brand of Hindu nationalist politics and is seeking a rare third term as the country's leader.