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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.
BROOKLYN – Nikon Vouyiouklis, 60, was turning from Remsen Avenue onto Glenwood Road in Canarsie, Brooklyn just before 5 AM when an Infiniti G-37 heading south on Remsen smashed into his Toyota Camry, police reported.
The Valley Stream, Long Island man died after his car was struck by an alleged drunken driver. The drivers of both care were taken to Brookdale Hospital.
According to the police report: “the operator of vehicle #1 in a 2011 Infiniti G-37 sedan was traveling southbound on Remsen Avenue when he collided with the operator of vehicle #2 in a 2010 Toyota Camry traveling northbound on Remsen Avenue attempting to make a left turn onto westbound Glenwood Rd. As a result of the collision vehicle #1 veered to the right striking a telephone pole and vehicle #2 struck 3 parked unoccupied vehicles on the west side of Remsen Ave.”
A third person was treated at the scene and Brooks, who received non-life-threatening injuries, was arrested at Brookdale. He was charged with criminally negligent homicide, vehicular manslaughter and DWI, according to police.
The investigation is being conducted by the New York City Police Department’s Collision Squad.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
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.