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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.
THESSALONIKI — President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Thursday inaugurated the 17th International Book Exhibition of Thessaloniki, this year held in digital form, expressing her certainty that the crucial wager of this year's exhibition will be won and also expressing her faith that the International Book Exhibition will continue to be a fruitful arena for experiences, quests and dialogue in the coming years.
As Sakellaropoulou said, this year the unprecedented conjucture of the pandemic has changed the form of the international exhibition but she underlined that this will not affect its drive and the vitality "as Its rich online programme, based on the vision and the hard work of the people that worked for it, promises."
In parallel, she underlined that a society that does not read , a society that has relegated books to the margins of its social and personal life, is a society condemned to spiritual barbarism and lack of freedom.
However, she pointed out that books have proved to be very resilient, adding: "The readers did not abandon them, in spite of the crisis and the economic restrictions and the phychological withering provoked by the pandemic, insecurity and fear".
She expressed hoped that the restrictions will soon be lifted and bookshops will reopen.
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.