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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 Greek economy contracted by 2.3 pct in the first quarter of 2021 compared with the corresponding period in 2020, after a 6.9 pct contraction recorded in the fourth quarter of 2020. Greek GDP shrank 8.2 pct in 2020.
The Hellenic Statistical Authority, in a report, said that total consumption spending fell 2.4 pct in the first quarter compared with the same period last year, while gross fixed capital investments rose 8.6 pct over the same period. Exports of goods and services fell 13.4 pct, with exports of goods up 8.2 pct and exports of services down 38.7 pct. Imports fell 5 pct in the January-March period, with imports of goods down 3 pct kai imports of services down 9.2 pct.
On a quarterly basis, final consumption spending fell 0.6 pct from the fourth quarter of 2020, fixed capital investments rose 3 pct, exports of goods and services rose 4 pct and imports increased 2 pct.
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.