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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 — Refugees located in Karditsa responded immediately to the call of the Development Agency of Karditsa, manager of the refugee housing programme ESTIA through a contract with the UN High Commission for Refugees, to assist the locals who suffered extensive property damages after Medicane Ianos hit the region.
"From the very start, we contacted all our beneficiaries – a total of 433 people, of which about 150 are children – and asked for volunteer work, as our community centre in 'Stavrodromi', in the centre of Karditsa, which is also used as a meeting and classroom place for refugee communities, was severely damaged by flooding," ESTIA project coordinator Chryssavgi Seggi told Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA). "A group of refugees and asylum seekers, together with Development Agency staff, took action and helped to restore and clean the area from water and mud," she added.
On their own initiative, refugees also assisted shop owners clean their stores following the damage they suffered.
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.