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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 – Workers at two Public Power Corporation units in Greece being put up for sale by a government which vowed to stop it said they will rally against the plan and warned of more severe actions.
PPC is the electric utility that provides power and the workers don’t want the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA-led coalition to sell off 40 percent of its lignite-powered plants in a country where they are no nuclear plants and there is reliance on fossil fuels.
Workers at the company’s Florina plant in northern Greece, as well as hundreds of residents whose livelihoods depend on the business, said they would gather on Dec. 4 outside the factory, while a similar rally will be held on Dec. 6 at the PPC plant in Megalopoli in the Peloponnese.
Speaking on SKAI TV, the head of the PPC union, GENOP, Giorgos Adamidis, said the government needs to brace for a “tough situation.” “I don’t know whether there will be blackouts… but there will certainly be strikes,” he said.
There have been scores of thousands of protests and strikes against austerity measures that began to be imposed in 2010 after successive governments agreed to what turned into three international bailouts of 326 billion euros ($386.47 billion), but none of them have worked.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 13 people, authorities said.
It was a close brush with death but a 40-year-old British tourist bitten by a deadly viper while at a yoga retreat on Cyprus is recovering after getting swift hospitalization to counteract the venom.
ATHENS - After Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system - with help from French, American and British fighter jet pilots - knocked Iranian missiles and drones from the skies during an attack, Greece is looking to create a similar protection method.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 13 people, authorities said.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Visitors to Disney's California parks could one day walk through the snow-covered hamlet of Arendelle from “Frozen” or the bustling, critter-filled metropolis of “Zootopia” under a park expansion plan approved by the Anaheim City Council.