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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 – Massive failures in dealing with a Jan. 24 snowstorm that left hundreds of motorists stranded overnight in freezing conditions has brought fines of 1 million euros ($1.12 million) each for two major highway operators.
The Ministry of Transport put the penalties on Attiki Odos and Attikes Diadromes after a special investigative committe held the companies to blame for the drivers being trapped on a ring road around the capital that cold night.
Mostly responsible, it said, was Attikes Diadromes, the company that manages the highway, and Attiki Odos the concession company, for failing to “exercise proper control over” the former in order to ensure that it complied with the relevant rules and procedures, said Kathimerini.
The ministry said because the text of the findings was not made public so the panel had to rely on traffic cameras and the recorded conversations of the Traffic Management Center with the Attica Road Traffic Department.
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.