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July 2008 Week 1

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NEW YORK – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, after being asked by Parade Chairman Philip Christopher for the Archdiocese to cover the costs of the Evzones again this year, formally requested from the President of Greece, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, the presence of the Presidential Guard for the 2023 New York City Greek Independence Parade.

ATHENS – Celestyal, the award-winning, number one choice for travelers to the Greek Islands and the Eastern Mediterranean, has partnered with the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), a Turkish government entity established to coordinate post-disaster response and to promote cooperation among various government agencies, in order to provide blankets and sleeping bags to some of the more than one million residents of Turkey who remain homeless following the 7.

LESBOS - A Yiayia – grandmother – with roots on the island of Mitilini has created YouTube and TikTok posts of her cooking and songs that are sweeping Australia.

BERLIN — Humanity still has a chance, close to the last, to prevent the worst of climate change ’s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday.

UPPER DARBY, PA – On March 19, the Saint Demetrios Greek School in Upper Darby held its annual celebration for the Greek Independence Day.

PARIS — France’s government is facing a critical, maybe fatal, moment Monday with no-confidence motions filed by lawmakers who are furious that President Emmanuel Macron ordered the use of special constitutional powers to force through an unpopular bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 without giving them a vote.

ATHENS - Ankara will support Greece's candidacy for a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council 2025-2026, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced on Monday after their meeting in Brussels.

ATHENS – While the New Democracy government denied it, refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Greece took to the streets of the capital to demonstrate against alleged pushbacks keeping others from reaching the country or its islands.

ATHENS - Parliament's Special Permanent Committee on Institutions and Transparency convened on Monday to hear the positions of former infrastructure and transport minister Kostas Karamanlis regarding the tragic rail accident at Tempi and on the state of the Greek railways when he took over as minister four years ago, as well as the actions taken in that time.

Working through retirement may seem like an absurdly oxymoronic approach to one's golden years, yet it's becoming the norm.

ASTORIA – The Athenians' Society of New York in collaboration with the Greek American Writers League, Queens College, and the Hellenic American Project (HAP) on March 18 at the Hellenic Cultural Center in Astoria presented the Fourth Book Exposition of Hellenic Writers of the Diaspora commemorating Greek Independence Day, March 25, 1821.

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A pregnant woman was driving in the HOV lane near Dallas.

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FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.

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NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.

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