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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 – A Greek attorney who officials said spread false news about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccinations was the first to be detained under a new law aimed at blocking misinformation about the Coronavirus.
While defendants in Greece generally aren’t named under privacy laws, the lawyer in this case was identified as Nikos Antoniadis, who Kathimerini said also faces charges of inciting disobedience.
He was said to be a leader of anti-vaxxer causes by those who don’t think the vaccines are safe or effective or are part of an international conspiracy by governments and pharmaceutical companies to alter their DNA or control their minds.
The case, the paper said, was brought by the police’s cybercrime division after a complaint was filed containing evidence that allegedly showed that he stated the Coronavirus is a hoax and doesn’t exist despite 17,000 deaths in Greece so far, and that patients are intubated without reason and the vaccines have dangerous side effects.
His arrest was ordered by the Athens Prosecutor’s Office, which has been probing rabid and sometimes violent anti-vaxxers, many who try to convince others that the health crisis is a hoax or that vaccines aren’t safe.
Antoniadis was later released and the prosecutor will decide whether to proceed with the prosecution or continue the preliminary investigation, said the paper, as the Athens Journalist Union said the law could be used against reporters writing about the pandemic.
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.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.