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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 the country’s attention squarely focused on the COVID-19 Coronavirus and most people staying home and trying to avoid the disease, Greek police again rounded up migrants living unlawfully in squats and taking over buildings.
Some 85 were detained in an Athens Polytechnic auditorium and taken to the aliens’ bureau in central Athens for identification after being found living in squalid conditions in a school housing the architecture and fine arts faculty, said Naftemporiki.
Anarchists had taken them there after police raided squats in the capital’s downtown, with many concentrated in the neighborhood of Exarchia that is home to anti-establishment groups challenging the government.
That came as the government had closed the border with Turkey, which had sent thousands of refugees and migrants there before pulling them back, and with asylum applications suspended and deportations of those who managed to enter the country after March 1.
Some 42,000 are being housed in island detention centers and camps, with another 58,000 or so on the mainland and worry that the facilities could be breeding grounds to spread the disease further.
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.