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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.
MOSCOW — Alexander Gorshkov, who won the first ice dance gold medal at the 1976 Olympics and later became a leading official in Russian figure skating, has died. He was 76.
The Russian Figure Skating Federation said in a statement on Thursday that Gorshkov “died suddenly” without giving further details.
Skating with his wife Lyudmila Pakhomova for the Soviet Union, Gorshkov won the gold medal when ice dance made its debut on the Winter Olympic program in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1976. They were six-time world champions whose ground-breaking performances in the years leading up to 1976 helped to convince officials to make ice dance an Olympic event.
Pakhomova’s and Gorshkov’s Olympic win started a dynasty, with six of the next eight ice dance gold medals through 2006 awarded to skaters representing the Soviet Union, and later the post-Soviet Unified Team and Russia.
Gorshkov later became an official at the International Skating Union and was president of the Russian federation from 2010 until his death.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
SANTIAGO, Chile - The President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, referred to the special intellectual, artistic and political relations between Greece and Chile, which is due to common experiences, especially their modern history, in the speech she addressed to the historic University of Chile, on the topic "Democracy and human rights: 50 years since the coup in Chile - 50 years since the restoration of Democracy in Greece.
Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Stefanos Kasselakis expressed his certainty that his party will be first in the European elections in an interview with ALPHA TV on Thursday evening.
JERUSALEM (AP) — The construction of a new port in Gaza and an accompanying U.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein's landmark New York sexual assault conviction was thrown out by an appeals court Thursday, and most of the dozens of civil cases filed against him since he became a central target in the #MeToo movement in 2017 have either been settled or dismissed.