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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 – Prime Ministers Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece and Erna Solberg of Norway, along with another 11 heads of European center-right parties, called on the president of the European People’s Party (EPP) Donald Tusk to expel the Hungarian party Fidesz from the Europarliament group on Thursday.
In their letter, the 13 express their great concern over a March 30 legislation voted in the Hungarian parliament that allows Prime Minister Victor Orban to extend his stay in power and the government to extend indefinitely the state of emergency.
“The battle against Covid-19 requires extensive measures but the virus cannot be used as an excuse to extend the state of emergency indefinitely,” they said in their letter.
They also expressed their support to the European Commission and asked for EU members to intervene jointly.
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.
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.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.