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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 — The government's debt settlement bill was passed in parliament by a majority vote of 158 MPs on Monday.
Another 140 MPs rejected the bill, which includes a new bankruptcy code for both businesses and private individuals, and regulations on home owners who have defaulted on their debts.
The Monday vote wrapped up four days of parliamentary deliberations, after main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras and 85 MPs of the party tabled and lost the vote on a motion of censure against Finance Minister Christos Staikouras, slamming the bill for not adequately protecting home owners whose homes are seized and auctioned against their loans and mortgages, SYRIZA had said in parliament.
Addressing the plenary on Monday, Staikouras said the bill is "cost-effective because it addresses the issue of private debt," and "socially sensitive, taking special care of vulnerable citizens." The minister added that it offers debtors a "second chance" via simple and fast procedures, boosts liquidity in the real economy and also incorporates the most recent European directives.
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.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.
PARIS (AP) — The second retractable roof at Roland Garros will be inaugurated on the opening day of the French Open next month, organizers said on Thursday about a project planned with the Paris Olympics in mind.