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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 wind-down of another record summer for tourism in Greece could be met with a 24-hour strike on Sept. 3 of ferry workers who said they will stop work in a protest that could strand 180,000 people on islands for the day.
The association representing Greek ferry companies (SEEN) urged the union of seamen (PNO) to call off the action and in a letter to them wrote that it would propose renewal of collective labor contracts, practices the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA ended on orders of international lenders, but which the government said would be restored now that international bailouts have ended.
There was no immediate response from PNO, which is demanding salary hikes and tax breaks, and has threatened to extend the strike which would cause a major disruption in travel plans for tourists who could be stuck on islands with no way to get off..
Shipping companies said the PNO’s threatened action would cause upheaval for a large number of people. “It will be impossible for solutions to be found to serve passengers,” SEEN said.
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.