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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 – Supreme Court Prosecutor Vassilis Pliotas has ordered investigators into the stabbing death of a 19-old student in an soccer rivaly to be accelerated, as police raided fan clubs in the aftermath.
Alkis Kambanos was with two friends on a sidewalk in Greece’s second-largest city on Feb. 1 when a gang of 10 men poured out of two cars and attacked them, injuring his friends.
He was struck on the head with a crowbar while pleading for the assault to stop and bled to death from a stab wound to the leg from a curved karambit knife before the attackers fled. Eleven people have been arrested.
Even murder cases can drag on for years in Greece and defendants, unless they are detained, don’t even have to show up in court for sessions or even for sentencing if convicted.
Pliotas ordered judicial authorities to give the case top priority, said Kathimerini, tying it to organized crime and fan violence that has seen soccer hooligans going after each other on the streets now in cities.
Dputy Supreme Court prosecutor Zacharias Kokkinakis earlier issued a circular demanding that individuals involved in sports-related violence be tried within 30 days of their arrest.
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.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
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.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.