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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 – A Supreme Court hearing for the extradition to France of 57-year-old Georgian national Lasha ‘The Fat’ Shushanashvili, alleged to be the head of Russian crime syndicate, was interrupted on Tuesday after the defendant complained of feeling unwell.
Shushanashvili had been wheeled into court on a stretcher under tight security conditions, accompanied by police officers and an ambulance service medic. The latter reported that the defendant was suffering from high blood pressure, while his lawyer Zoi Konstantopoulou said her client faced serious health problems and asked that the hearing be postponed.
The court decided to adjourn the proceedings until July 20 and the defendant was taken to Nikaia General Hospital.
The 57-year-old was arrested in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki in April during a joint European police operation held simultaneously in France and Greece. He had been imprisoned before that time and was released in 2015 for health reasons but apparently resumed criminal activity, organising thefts and burglaries from which his gang allegedly earned roughly one million euros.
French authorities consider him the leader of a crime syndicate involved in thefts and the ‘fencing’ of stolen goods.
Thessaloniki Appeals Court Justices agreed to his extradition to France provided he is then transferred back to Greece, where he faces other charges.
Another 13 individuals – 11 of them Georgian nationals – were arrested with Shushanashvili, two of which also face possible extradition.
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.