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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 — Greece and Korea may be geographically far apart, but they share a history of struggles for freedom, democracy and the United Nations charter's values, Greek Parliament Speaker Kostas Tassoulas said on Tuesday, welcoming South Korean National Assembly Speaker Park Byeong-Seug.
A statement by the Greek Parliament said that Tassoulas also thanked his visiting counterpart for plans to erect at a prominent site monument honoring Greeks who fought for Korea. He also praised South Korea for its admirable way of handling the coronavirus pandemic, saying that "the entire world and Greece watched the country's leading success."
Park Byeong-Seug expressed Korea's gratitude to the Greek people and then-government for having dispatched 10,000 soldiers to fight in the Korean War. He referred to the "exemplary collaboration of the two countries," especially in shipping and ship-building, and expressed the hope this would be extended to other sectors as well.
The parliamentary leader was accompanied by a large delegation of Korean MPs and the Korean ambassador to Greece, while the meetings were also attended by the MPs leading the Greece-South Korea Friendship Group.
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.