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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 — Greek trade deficit shrank 27.1 pct in August this year, compared with the same month in 2019, reflecting a 19.6 pct drop in imports and a 14.2 pct decline in exports, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Wednesday.
More specifically, the value of imports totaled 3.333 billion euros in August, from 4.147 billion in August 2019, for a decline of 19.6 pct (excluding oil products imports fell 7.0 pct while excluding oil products and ships imports eased 1.7 pct).
The value of exports totaled 2.063 billion euros in August, down 14.2 pct from the same month last year (excluding oil products, exports fell 5.0 pct while excluding oil products and ships, exports fell 5.1 pct).
The country's trade deficit was 1.270 billion euros in August, down 27.1 pct from August 2019 (excluding oil products, the trade deficit fell 9.3 pct while excluding oil products and ships, the trade deficit rose 2.8 pct),
In the January-August period, the value of imports totaled 31.559 billion euros, down 15.1 pct from the corresponding period in 2019 (excluding oil products, imports fell 6.8 pct while excluding oil products and ships, imports fell 6.1 pct). The value of exports totaled 19.783 billion euros in the eight-month period, down 11.9 pct from the same period in 2019 (excluding oil products, exports rose 0.8 pct while excluding oil products and ships, exports rose 0.8 pct).
The country's trade deficit totaled 11.776 billion euros in the January-August period, down 19.8 pct from the corresponding period in 2019 (excluding oil products, the trade deficit fell 16.5 pct while excluding oil products and ships, the trade deficit fell 15.1 pct).
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.