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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 – “Today we remember that democracy, freedom and national pride are never a gift. They are a conquest won by struggling every day,” stated Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Fofi Gennimata, in a statement on Tuesday regarding the 53rd anniversary since the 1967 military coup d’etat that wrested power for seven years.
“April 21 is a day that nobody should forget as the foreign-incited junta put the country in international isolation and led to the tragedy in Cyprus. As time goes by, the memory should remain alive in schools, in families, in parliament and in public speech,” she said.
“The best resistance to fascism are our daily actions. Resistance to racism and xenophobia, resistance, with more democracy,” urged Gennimata.
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.