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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 — Greek police took into custody two men and a woman they said were trying to blackmail Pantelis Tsakiris, Mayor of Oreokastro in northern Greece to pay them 40,000 euros ($46,357) or they would release a compromising video of him.
Police said the 38-year-old mayor and his brother, 41, had filed a complaint and an operation was immediately organized, leading to the arrest of the ringleader when he arrived at a pre-arranged appointment to get paid, said Kathimerini.
An accomplice who was waiting nearby to receive the money, was also arrested, as was a 22-year-old woman, who had a cell phone containing the video although it wasn’t described what it contained.
In a Facebook post, Tsakiris said he was “shocked by the violent intrusion into my personal and family life.” “Very angry and disgusted with the methods used by some to achieve their goals. That’s enough. Justice is taking over now,” he wrote.
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.