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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 — The sales of electric vehicles in the Greek market were less than 1 pct of total vehicle sales in 2019, while in other EU countries the corresponding percentages were between 4-5 pct, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Costas Karamanlis said on Tuesday, in the context of the online Electric Vehicle Conference 2020. In some cases, he added, such as in the Netherlands, electric vehicles accounted for more than 10 pct of total sales, and in Norway they were close to 50 pct,
At an international level, one third of final energy consumption and 30 pct of greenhouse gas emissions were attributed to the transport sector, Karamanlis noted. He stressed that the wider European goal is for the transport sector to reduce emissions by 60 pct by 2050 and for traffic in cities to be made up entirely of non-conventional vehicles. Therefore, he added, it is clear that the promotion of e-mobility throughout the country serves these goals, as it contributes significantly to energy savings and environmental protection.
In this framework, the minister presented the four axes of the ministry's action plan for e-mobility.
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.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.