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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 — Retail sales turnover dropped 24.8 pct in April, the second month of a lockdown in the country, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Tuesday. The statistics service, in a monthly report, said that the volume of sales fell 83.1 pct in clothing-footwear, 52.5 pct in furniture-electrical appliances-home equipment, 52.5 pct in bookstores, 45.4 pct in department stores, 31.9 pct in fuel, 26.3 pct in food-alcohol-tobacco, 3.6 pct in pharmaceuticals-cosmetics, while supermarkets recorded a 6.2 pct increase.
The retail sales volume index (turnove rin fixed prices) fell 24.8 pct in April compared with the same month last year and fell 23.1 pct from March 2020. The seasonally-adjusted index dropped 25.5 pct in April from March 2020.
The retail sales turnover index (turnover in current prices) fell 24.7 pct in April compared with the same month last year and fell 23.3 pct from March 2020. The seasonally-adjusted index dropped 26.5 pct in April from March 2020.
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.