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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 — More than 4,000 enterprises have already applied for the Gefyra II programme offering state subsidies for business loans, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said on Friday.
The Greek FinMin said that a total of 4,160 individual entities had finalised their applications to the new programme by Thursday, of which 2,468 were very small enterprises, 1,147 were self-employed individuals or single-person companies, 479 were small enterprises and 66 were medium-sized enterprises. The closing date for applications to join the programme is May 9.
Gefyra II will subsidise business loan tranches for a period of eight months, covering up to 90 pct of monthly tranches.
The ministry has already paid subsidies worth 96 million euros, since last November, for mortgage loans included in the Gefyra I programme.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 13 people, authorities said.
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ATHENS – The Divani Palace Acropolis, nestled in the heart of Athens, is set to elevate the city's dining and nightlife scene with the grand opening of its much-anticipated rooftop restaurant and bar next month.
NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Bob Menendez may seek exoneration at his May bribery trial by blaming his wife, saying she kept him in the dark about anything that could be illegal about her dealings with New Jersey businessmen, according to court papers unsealed Tuesday.
It was a close brush with death but a 40-year-old British tourist bitten by a deadly viper while at a yoga retreat on Cyprus is recovering after getting swift hospitalization to counteract the venom.