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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 – One of three alleged whistleblowers who claimed that 10 political rivals of the former ruling Radical Left SYRIZA took bribes from the Swiss drug company Novartis – with no evidence to back it up – said he was pressured to implicate them.
Testifying before a parliamentary committee probing possible political interference in the case, former Health Ministry adviser Nikos Maniadakis, made those claims, said Kathimerini in a report.
Citing sources that weren’t identified, the paper said Maniakakis told lawmakers he was pressured by prosecutors to put the finger on SYRIZA rivals during a time when then-Premier Alexis Tsipras said his rivals were guilty of “the biggest scandal since the creation of the modern Greek state,” although seven have been cleared.
Maniadakis said he was prodded to name former New Democracy leader and previous premier Antonis Samaras, former health minister Adonis Georgiadis, Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras and former finance minister Evangelos Venizelos.
With the prosecutor, Eleni Touloupaki, also being probed over her role in pushing the case, another Supreme Court prosecutor Vassilis Pliotas asked for an independent magistrate to step in and take it over.
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.