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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 – A year after Turkey tried, and failed, to get 10,000 migrants across the border along the Evros River, Greece is stepping up patrols and surveillance teams using radar and cameras that can see 15 kilometers (9.32 miles) across the other side.
They are being set up in an area between Sofiko in Orestiada and the river delta in Alexandroupolis, said Kathimerini, reporting that authorities said 11 cameras and long-range radars have been installed and will soon be operational. They will be linked to Hellenic Police headquarters and six other operational centers.
The project has a budget of 14.9 million euros ($18.1 million) and is funded by the European Commission’s Directorate General Migration and Home Affairs, the area also monitored by European Union FRONTEX border patrol teams.
Human rights groups and activists have complained that Greece has pushed back refugees and migrants in the Aegean back toward Turkey, which let human smugglers try to get them to Greek islands, and that Greece has also done the same on the land border, which the government denied.
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 (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.