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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 – Ruling the world in their sector, Greece’s essentially tax-free shipping oligarchs are pouring their riches back into acquiring more new and used ships to add to their fleets in a $15.8 billion spending spree.
That was the estimate this year from Clarksons shipbrokers which said that $9 billion went toward new ships and $6.8 billion for used vessels, increasing their distance from the second-place Chinese who are challenging them.
Shipowners worldwide are prospering during the COVID-19 pandemic at the same time those used to transport goods haven’t been able to keep up with rising demand for goods, creating supply chain problems.
The owners will spend $147 billion this year worldwide for vessels, double the $74 billion in 2020 when the Coronavirus was spreading around the planet. The figure is 46 percent more than the average amount of $100 billion spent in each of the three previous years (from 2017 to 2019), Clarksons said, according to Kathimerini.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.