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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 – The second attack on Greece’s shipping sector in a week, this one a canister bomb set off outside a building in Piraeus which media reports said was the home of a shipping executive had police scrambling to find out who was behind them.
The explosion caused damage but no injuries, said Kathimerini, reporting that witnesses said they had seen two people who arrived at the scene on a motorcycle but that their faces were covered.
Earlier in January, a similar device attached to a can of gasoline was set off outside a shipping firm but there’s been no claim of responsibility in either case not any motive given although Greece’s shipping sector is essentially tax-free and escaped a near decade-long economic and austerity crisis, prospering while workers, pensioners and the poor were hit.
Anarchists have also been stepping up attacks across Athens in response to the New Democracy crackdown on violence and lawlessness, especially in the downtown neighborhood of Exarchia they dominate.
The new attack on shipping interests came as police were also investigating the fatal shooting of a 53-year-old municipal official in Dionysos, north of Athens, the paper also said, with the alleged killer, 77, a worker in the water supply department, turning himself in.
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.
ALBANY – New York State Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Senator James Skoufis honored Greek Independence at the State Capitol on March 26, welcoming His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, who offered an invocation before the Senate.
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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".