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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 office of the Athens public prosecutor ordered a preliminary inquiry on Thursday into the attack of an Athens metro employer by two young men who beat him up severely after he asked them to wear a mask on the train on Wednesday.
The man, a station manager of the transport managing company STASY, was attacked at the platform after getting off a train on the Anthoupoli to Omonia route and is now hospitalized. The brutal attack was recorded by the station cameras.
The Athens prosecutor’s office has called for an investigation into the event and for a search for the two perpetrators.
Stasy condemned the attack on Wednesday and said it would take all measures possible to prevent similar incidents against its employees.
Yesterday, two subway passengers assaulted an Athens stationmaster after he told them they should be wearing masks for the coronavirus pandemic, and Greek authorities vowed to bring the attackers to justice.
The public order ministry said the two young men behaved “like brutes” to the stationmaster, who was hospitalized with severe injuries.
A ministry statement said that apart from hitting the official, the two passengers also spat and swore at him.
Under Greece's COVID-19 restrictions, wearing of masks is obligatory in public transport as well as in all public areas both indoors and outdoors.
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.