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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.
LONDON – Greece has a tough but fair policy on migration, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday, appearing on the UK breakfast television programme “Good Morning Britain” on ITV.
Mitsotakis noted that Greece has accepted more than 50,000 asylum applications in the last three years and that no one can accuse it of not respecting human rights.
At the same time, he added, “I have an obligation to protect our borders” and he called on Turkey to honour its own side the EU-Turkey Joint Statement of 2016.
The Greek premier confirmed anew that he will be raising the issue of the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson later on Tuesday, when the two leaders meet at Downing Street.
Regarding the management of the coronavirus pandemic, Mitsotakis said that his government has no intention to impose a lockdown for unvaccinated citizens, as Austria began doing on Monday, he added. He also noted that vaccinations in Greece have picked up pace over the last two weeks, and he encouraged Britons to start booking their 2022 holidays in Greece now.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.