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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.
THESSALONIKI – The pandemic has affected the entire publishing sector, “but the book and its world have, throughout history, overcome worse challenges: censorship, bans, confiscations, and burning,” President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said while inaugurating the 18th International Book Fair in Thessaloniki on Thursday.
Sakellaropoulou expressed her affection for the city of her birth, and referred to the opportunity to attend the fair the best gift on her name day. She also noted that despite the changes brought to the publishing sector by the Internet and the rise in popularity of audio books, podcasts and online book presentations, “the majority of readers in the world and in Greece remain focused on paper.” The president also referred to this year’s honoree, German literature, saying that “Germany gave us great classic writers.”
Statements were also made by Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF-HELEXPO) officials and book representatives, as well as several German officials, including Deputy Foreign Minister for International Policiy on Culture Michelle Müntefering, director of the International Book Fair of Frankfurt Juergen Boos and general director of Goethe Institue of Athens and Southeastern Europe Angela Kaya. In addition, president of the International Publishers Association Bodour Al Qasimi spoke at the event, which is under the auspices of the Greek Presidency.
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.