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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.
LESBOS, Greece — Three mayors on the islands of Lesvbos, Chios and Samos called on the European Union on Thursday to amend the proposal for the new migration pact, saying "it unduly burdens front-line countries, damaging their national interests and creating gray zones in the eastern borders of the EU."
"It is entirely acknowledged by all that no single EU country can effectively handle migration and asylum by itself, but this requires a joint and decisive policy, based on the principles of solidarity and the fair distribution of responsibilities among countries, with an emphasis on guarding Europe's external borders and averting migration flows," the mayors of Mitilini (Stratis Kitelis), Chios (Stamatis Karmandzis) and East Samos (Giorgos Standzos) said.
The current proposal, said the three North Aegean Region officials, "undermines the current European institutional framework in terms of solidarity, protecting our borders and in the role of NGOs," and they called on the government to vote it down, in favor of practical European solidarity.
The residents of their islands will "remain on alert until the full revocation of all regulations of the new proposal that harm our lives," they warned.
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.