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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 – Greek police teams are moving into public squares and gathering areas to keep people from collecting, drinking and partying with night clubs required to close at midnight to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
That comes as the New Democracy government on Sept. 21 extended the requirement to wear masks to outdoor public areas, which will be in effect for at least two weeks but a second lockdown could be brought if spiraling cases aren't controlled.
The police squads are using bullhorns and sirens to disperse crowds of mostly young men and women gathering at public squares in popular parts of the city as the government also said it may require street kiosks to close at midnight so people couldn't buy liquor there.
Police are focusing attention in nightlife districts such Exarchia, Pangrati, Gazi and Kypseli in central Athens, as well as in the suburbs of Kallithea, Nea Smyrni and Agia Paraskevi, where after-midnight crowding was reported, said Kathimerini.
Police have been sweeping the capital and conducting scores of thousands of checks daily and issuing fines of 150 euros ($175.69) for individuals violating health protocols and 10,000 euros ($11,721.40) for businesses, some of which are closed temporarily.
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.