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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.
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is not planning to march in the nation’s biggest and oldest St. Patrick’s Day parade unless its organizers change their limitations on displays of gay pride.
De Blasio skipped the march a year ago and currently intends to do so again, aides to the mayor said Monday. This year, one group is permitted to carry an LGBT-themed banner in the March 17 parade up Fifth Avenue but the mayor, a Democrat, does not feel that change is enough.
“We need something more for it to really feel like we’ve turned the corner,” the mayor said Sunday after he marched in an inclusive St. Patrick’s Day parade in Queens. “A lot of people feel — I think, rightfully — that that is too small a change to merit a lot of us participating.”
The mayor’s staff said de Blasio would be willing to reconsider if the organizers changed their minds in the next two weeks. At the moment, only a delegation from NBCUniversal will be permitted to march under a LGBT-themed banner. NBC televises the parade.
De Blasio, a Democrat, became the first mayor in 20 years to skip the Manhattan march. Many other top elected officials also did not participate in 2014.
The parade’s organizers have not suggested that they will alter the policy. The event — one of the largest parades on the city calendar — has been held for than 250 years and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, will serve as grand marshal.
The mayor’s decision to likely skip the parade could be another source of tension with the city’s Irish political leaders, a group that has seen its influence wane in recent years.
JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press
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 - 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.
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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.