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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 — SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance's spokesperson Nassos Iliopoulos accused the government of persistent refusal to proceed with a substantial requisition of the private clinics, in an interview with a Star TV (Central Greece) late on Tuesday.
"More than 100 people in Attica are on the ICU waiting list," he said, noting that "even now that hospitals are 'in the red', the ruling New Democracy (ND) government denies the substantial involvement of the private sector in dealing with of the pandemic – as is done in so many foreign countries such as France, Italy, Germany – showing a government that operates in a dangerous way for the lives of citizens."
Iliopoulos criticized the government for "failing to take the necessary measures to address the spread of the virus on public transport and workplaces, which according to the World Medical Association are dangerous transmission spots."
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
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.