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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 – The Financial Crime Police are conducting an investigation into all the homes run by the child charity “Kivotos tou Kosmou” (Ark of the World) and into 15 individuals in charge of the management of the organsiation.
In the context of the investigation, a search to the organisation’s children’s home in Kalamata began on Friday morning, while another was carried out on Thursday at a similar structure in Chios.
A Greek police official said to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency that the investigation into the regional facilities of Kivotos tou Kosmou are held by the local police at Financial Crime Police Directorate’s orders.
According to police sources, the figures so far show that approximately 5 to 6 million euros were paid into the organisation’s coffers every year from donations. The course of the money will be checked, along with the donations of properties.
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.