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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 – Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister for Economic Diplomacy and Openness Kostas Fragogiannis on Friday emphasized the need for international joint actions to restart global economy and trade after the coronavirus pandemic, during a 17+1 video conference with China’s national coordinators.
The e-meeting by the China and Central & Eastern European Countries Cooperation (China-CEEC/17+1), which Greece joined in 2019, was organised by Chinese Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Qin Gang. Its focus was strengthening cooperation to address the financial and health implications of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fragogiannis outlined Greece’s management of the pandemic in its first critical stage, and the role that the 17+1 initiative could play in the Greek economy. He also called for a global approach based on collaboration, solidarity and transpanrency to deal with a global challenge.
China’s 17+1 initiative aims at strengthening and expanding cooperation with the states of central and eastern Europe. It includes 12 EU member states: Bulgaria, Greece, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, along with Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia.
Some eight conferences have so far been held in the context of the 17+1 initiative, while the first summit of heads of state and government was to take place in April 2020 in Beijing, but was postponed due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.