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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 — "Everything is happening over the money," claimed the 27-year-old football player accused of gang rape as he departed from the examining magistrate's office on Tuesday, where he was given a new date to prepare his testimony concerning the charges against him.
The 27-year-old Portuguese defender, who plays for a top-ranking Greek team in the Super League, was on Monday indicted for the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl after he was arrested and brought before a public prosecutor.
He asked for and received a new deadline to prepare his testimony and thus will appear before the magistrate again on Thursday morning. At the same time, a second man charged over the same incident was given a deadline to testify on Friday.
Leaving the magistrate's office, the footballer shouted to gathered journalists that he was innocent. "I am innocent. You will all see it. If I was not a football player all this would not have happened. Everything is happening for the money," he said.
The two men are facing charges of gang rape after the 17-year-old reported that they took advantage of her while she was under the influence of alcohol and raped her after luring her back to the footballer's house.
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.