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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 (AP) — Greece’s left-led government and the country’s powerful Orthodox Church have struck a tentative deal to end decades of discord over of large tracts of real estate both claim as their own.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says the deal will also end the civil servant status of Church of Greece clerics — some 9,000 men currently paid out of the state budget.
Greek taxpayers nevertheless will continue to cover the Church’s payroll through an annual state subsidy equal to extant costs for clergy salaries.
Tsipras said that under the agreement, Church and state will form a joint fund to manage and develop contested properties.
He discussed the plan while he and Church head Archbishop Hieronymos made joint statements.
The deal requires approval from Tsipras’ Cabinet and the Church’s governing body.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.