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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.
NEW YORK — A 24-year-old man found dead in his cell at Rikers Island was the ninth inmate to die at the troubled jail complex this year, officials said.
A correction officer found Esias Johnson unresponsive Tuesday morning, Department of Correction officials said. Medical staff pronounced him dead at 9:45 a.m.
"The circumstances surrounding this death will receive a full investigation," New York City Correction Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi said in a statement. "We have been in touch with Esias Johnson's next of kin, and extend our deepest condolences."
Johnson had been in custody for a month and was being held for menacing and fugitive arrest warrant charges.
His death was the ninth at Rikers in 2021 and follows two just last month. Brandon Rodriguez died on Aug. 10 and Segundo Guallpa died on Aug. 30, according to Department of Correction records.
City Council Member Keith Powers, the chair of the criminal justice committee, called nine inmate deaths "unacceptable." Powers said on Twitter, "There's a reason so many of us have been sounding the alarm at Rikers and across NYC's correctional facilities. We are in crisis mode and must take action."
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.