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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 Greek unemployment rate eased to 16.3 pct of the workforce in March from 16.6 pct in February, but edged up from 16.1 pct in March 2020, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Friday.
The statistics service, in a monthly report, said that the Greek labour market was affected by the implementation of special operation regulations for enterprises and by the implementation of restrictive measures to protect public health and to deal with the coronavirus pandemic around the country.
The number of employed people totaled 3,679,530 in March, down 217,335 from March 2020 (-5.6 pct) and down 13,614 compared with February 2021 (-2.5 pct). The number of unemployed people totaled 714,779 in March, down 32,081 (-4.3 pct) from March 2020, or down 18,384 (-2.5 pct) compared with February 2021.
The number of people outside the labour market was 3,477,133 in March, up 6.7 pct from March 2020 and down 0.9 pct from February 2021.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
CALIFORNIA - The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide Thursday as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread.
NEW YORK — The third day of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial concluded Thursday after Trump's lawyers got their first chance to question a witness on the stand.
ATLANTA — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud.
ATHENS - Voters should see the whole picture when they go to cast their ballot in the European Parliament elections on June 9, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview on Thursday.