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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 — Μovement for Change (KINAL) leader Fofi Gennimata on Monday tabled a question in parliament addressed to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Gennimata in her question says that "the crisis in the Greek econony is taking dangerous dimensions" while "the responsible ministers see a 16 pct recession for Q2 and 8 pct for 2020".
She said that undoubtely the pandemic worsened the conditions but "growth in Greece was already frail and the problems in the budget execution existing".
In any case, she said "in such a crisis the government should intervene with drastic, bold and targetted measures. The future can't be built on ruins. KINAL had proposed an interim programme in order for the society to remain standing and the economy alive. Unfortunately, the government chose another way with insufficient measures and huge delays in decision making, mostly regarding their implementation," she said.
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.
LONDON - A British Airways flight that started in Athens on January 3 just missed hitting a drone over the Kent countryside in England, coming within 5 feet at a height of 9,600 feet, the plane carrying 180 passengers and traveling 250 miles an hour.
It won’t pass through some French cities and towns that didn’t want it but the Olympic Torch for the Paris 2024 Games will be lit April 16 in Olympia by priestesses wearing outfits that some on social media found weren’t just right.
ATHENS - There were no injuries nor damage reported despite its intensity as a 5.
LONDON, UK – Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark is set to marry her lawyer fiancé this fall in Athens, according to media reports – “after the couple previously postponed their wedding date twice,” Tatler reported, noting that Theodora, “who was born in London, started dating Matthew Kumar in 2016, with the couple announcing their engagement in November 2018.