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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 – With the Greek capital sprinkled with homeless, many of them drug users, sleeping in cardboard boxes and makeshift shelters even on main streets, the Athens municipality is going to try a plan to offer accommodation in a dormitory structure.
That will be in the downtown area of Agios Pavlos but the scheme is already seeing resistance from residents there who don't want it, although the city is already planning similar shelters in western Attica and the port of Piraeus.
The city is also planning to launch mobile units for supervised drug use and to boost the efforts of social workers on the city’s streets, reaching out to drug users and giving them clean needles to protect themselves from disease, said Kathimerini.
Potini Leobilla, President of the municipality’s addiction prevention center said that, “Within the next six months we expect to have the specific vehicles that can also be used as mobile medical units,” the report also added.
Earlier, the New Democracy government that street sellers of a magazine about the homeless will get a benefit, vendors for the magazine Sxedia (Raft,) most of whom were homeless or at risk of being so would get a retroactive 534-euro ($636) for January and February.
Earlier in March, the British newspaper The Guardian reported some 2,000 refugees were at risk of being left homeless by the termination of an EU-funded program providing cash assistance and temporary shelter to people granted asylum.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.
For Muslim soccer players in deeply secular France, observing Ramadan is a tall order, and this is not about to change.
TOKYO (AP) — “Oppenheimer” finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by the American scientist who was the subject of the Oscar-winning film.
Sunday is International Transgender Day of Visibility, observed around the world to bring attention to a population that's often ignored, disparaged or victimized.