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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.
TOKYO — Greece will not be represented in the artistic swimming event at the Tokyo Olympics after three new cases of Covid-19 in the Greek team, the Greek Olympic Committee (HOC) announced on Tuesday.
"Due to the three new cases of coronavirus in the artistic swimming team, the Organising Committee informed the leadership of the Greek team and that the other members of the artistic swimming team must leave the Olympic Village and be transferred to a hotel for close monitoring," the announcement said.
This meant that Greece will not be represented in either the team event or the duet events, while the three athletes were already in a quarantine hotel, the announcement added.
According to an earlier announcement, the three athletes had no symptoms while they had not come into contact with other members of the Greek mission.
A fourth member of the team had tested positive on Monday.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
CALIFORNIA - The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide Thursday as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread.
NEW YORK — The third day of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial concluded Thursday after Trump's lawyers got their first chance to question a witness on the stand.
ATLANTA — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud.
ATHENS - Voters should see the whole picture when they go to cast their ballot in the European Parliament elections on June 9, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview on Thursday.