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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 – With one of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn members convicted of operating a criminal gang on the run from the law, Greece wants the European Parliament to lift immunity for another, Ioannis Lagos, who can't be jailed otherwise.
That came as Greek police were hunting for the party's former second-in-command, Christos Pappas, whose lawyer admitted had become a fugitive, embarrassing the police and New Democracy government which said he had been followed and hadn't been because of privacy laws despite being a convict.
The rest of the party's former Greek Members of Parliament are behind bars on sentences up to 13 ½ years although it's not unusual in Greece for high-profile convicts to let be let out early.
Lagos is free unless his colleagues in the European Parliament take away immunity and allow him to be extradited from Brussels although he had
Greece's Supreme Court prosecutor’s office has filed with the European Parliament asking for the case to be expedited, which usually first requires a committee to review any requests, EU lawmakers wanting to protect themselves.
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.