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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.
With Greece struggling to manage 54,000 refugees and migrants stuck in the country, a German agency said it will pay for a reception center at Thermi, near Thessaloniki.
Representatives of a large German Non-governmental agency visited Thessaloniki for talks with local officials about creating the center, which would hold up to 1,500 refugees, Kathimerini reported. The NGO is said to be offering five million euros ($5.71 million) for use by local authorities.
That comes as some 11,000 refugees and migrants are camped out at Idomeni, near the closed FYROM border, still hoping to get across to reach other more prosperous European Union countries.
Greece’s Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas said the government will urge them to leave but not force them out even though they are blocking rail traffic and have cost Greek businesses more than four million euros ($4.57 million) so far.
“Idomeni must be dismantled and will be dismantled,” he said, adding that migrants whose residence permits have expired will get them automatically renewed by authorities when they are relocated to state-run reception centers.
There are also around 5,000 more in a state-run facility in Elliniko, the site of the old Athens airport, several thousand at the port of Piraeus and thousands more scattered around other camps.
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.