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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 – Greece and Saudi Arabia have agreed to a joint venture agreement to lay down a fiber-optic data cable that will tie Asia to Europe through the so-called East to Med Data data corridor (EMC.)
That’s an undersea and land data cable to will be developed by MENA HUB, owned by Saudi Arabia’s STC and Greek telecoms and satellite applications company TTSA, said Reuters.
Greece’s power utility Public Power Corporation and Cyprus’ telecoms operator CYTA will hold a stake in the project, pending final corporate approvals, a Greek diplomat not named told the news agency.
The final closing of the deal is expected by July, for the project to launch in autumn and be completed by the end of 2025, the diplomat said while another close to the deal said it will cost 800 million euros ($857.12 million) and connect users from Singapore to Italy.
It’s also seen in another step by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ New Democracy government to digitize the country that had a notorious reputation for public officials piling stacks of files on floors and shunning modernization efforts.
A big chunk of 32 billion euros ($34.28 billion) in European Union loans and grants designed to aid the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic will instead be steeered toward 5G and fiber-optic infrastructure, the report said.
The deal further shows the world has set aside alleged outrage against Saudi Arabia’s government being accused of murdering Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi and a return to business as usual.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
ALBANY – New York State Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Senator James Skoufis honored Greek Independence at the State Capitol on March 26, welcoming His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, who offered an invocation before the Senate.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".