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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 — President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Monday spoke on the phone with Thessaloniki hospital chiefs and expressed her warmest thanks and her unconditional solidarity with the difficult and valuable work of the medical and nursing staff, as well as of the hospitals' support staff.
Sakellaropoulou spoke on Monday with the director of Thessaloniki's Ippokration hospital Nikos Antonakis, the chief of Papanikolaou hospital Maria Giogatzi and the head of AHEPA hospital Panagiotis Panteliadis in order to be informed on the condition prevailing in the city's hospitals and the working conditions of the medical and nursing staff.
The three directors briefed the president on the problems they are facing due to the extraordinary condition caused by the pandemic in northern Greece. On her part, Sakellaropoulou expressed her support, asking the three directors to convey her thanks to medical and nursing staff as well as to all the hospitals' employees and her total support for their difficult and valuable work.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
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.