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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 – While fending off allegations of pushing back refugees and migrants, Greece’s Coast Guard said it caught two speedboats carrying 37 of them off the island of Kos, near Turkey’s coast, and arrested three alleged human traffickers.
Coast Guard officials said both vessels ignored warnings to stop and attempted to ram the a patrol ship but were stopped when warning shots were fired in the air, said the Italian news agency ANSAmed.
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One of the boats was carrying 20 migrants and two alleged traffickers, while the other had 17 migrants and another suspected trafficker on board, said the report, the incident coming as Greece is under criticism for keeping out asylum seekers.
Kos is one of five islands near Turkey’s coast that are targets of the traffickers that Turkey is allowing to keep operating in violation of an essentially-suspended 2016 swap deal with the European Union.
Greek police said they broke a criminal gang smuggling migrants packed into trucks from across the Turkish border at a cost of 4,000 euros ($4,329 each) and that seven suspects were arrested and another 20 identified, the the news agency said.
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.