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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 Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the Special Vocational Education Workshop in Agios Dimitrios on Thursday on the occasion of World Autism Day. He had the opportunity to talk to students, teachers and parents about the multifaceted activities in which they engage in the context of vocational education during the difficult conditions imposed by the pandemic. In fact, the prime minister received their proposals on the issue of vocational rehabilitation, emphasising that the issue is one of his main priorities.
"It is very important for me to be with you today, not only to congratulate you, all the employees here in the largest special school in Greece, but especially the parents and all those who participate in this very intense experiential process, the great work that you are doing," Mitsotakis noted. "But what interests me most is to understand what more we can do as a state to enhance special education as a whole, by learning lessons from your daily experiences," he said.
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.