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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.
The temporary removal and repositioning of ancient underground finds during excavation for Thessaloniki's metro system has been approved by Greece's highest administrative court, the Council of State.
The finds were discovered during construction at the Venizelou metro station, which set off a debate how to deal with them, including among archaeologists, local officials and Attiko Metro, the company managing the project.
By a narrow margin, the court rejected all three appeals filed by scientists, professionals and non-government organizations against a Culture Ministry decision to move the antiquities to storage outside the city, and place them back after the station’s construction, said Kathimerini.
The court ruled that the temporary relocation of the monument was deemed necessary to protect the antiquities during construction and prevent a risk to human health with work ongoing.
The project is already many years behind schedule, due to the discoveries and debate. The construction of the Thessaloniki metro was commissioned in 2003 and was initially expected to be completed by 2012.
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.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
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.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.