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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 woman admitted throwing acid on the face of a woman she mistakenly believed was dating a man the suspect was seeing should be found guilty of the attack that disfigured the victim, a prosecutor said. A court will decide the fate of Efi Kakarantzoula, charged with attempted murder, who said she stalked her victim and attacked her in May 2020 in the neighborhood of Kallithea.
Kakarantzoula, 37, calmly recalled what she did, said Kathimerini, saying she thought that the victim, Ioanna Paliospyrou, 35, was involved with a man with the suspect said she was having a sexual relationship. Despite Paliospyrou’s assurances that she was not involved with the man, the defendant told the country that she was “consumed by envoy,” and followed her for months before the attack outside the victim’s workplace.
Her lawyer had asked the court to reduce the charges against his client from attempted murder to committing grievous bodily harm, arguing that Kakarantzoula didn’t mean to hurt Paliospyrou by throwing acid on her. But prosecutor Charalambos Mastrantonakis said that, “The allegation of grievous bodily harm is to be rejected. It is concluded that she definitely considered the death of the victim possible and approved it.”
“She developed feelings of hatred for the victim, believing that she had deceived her… after that, she began devising a plan to exterminate her with vitriol,” he added. The prosecutor also said that the defendant “was given the opportunity to present her case to the investigative magistrate, to present her case before us, for an act she has committed and confessed to.
But she never gave Ioanna such an opportunity. She condemned her to bear her own cross every day,” the paper reported.
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.