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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 – Greeks are still strongly pro-European despite years of austerity and economic hardships driven by European Union lenders that had temporarily driven them the other way, a survey showed.
They are becoming more optimistic said the findings by the think tank DiaNEOsis, said Kathimerini, after Greece nearly left the EU and is still suffering the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some 64 percent of respondents are positive about Greece being in the EU, with 34 percent negative and 2 percent apparently not caring either way, a big turn from the days of the 2010-18 financial crisis that required three international bailouts of 326 billion euros ($354.57 billion) to keep the economy from collapsing.
And despite having a small but intense hard core of ultra-nationalists and neo-Nazi type groups, Greeks still don’t like autocrats and authoritarian leaders, with French President Emmanuel Macron having strong support of 65 percent, with Russian President Vladimir Putin at 18.8 percent, China’s President Xi Jinping at 18.5 percent and 5.7 percent of Greeks admirers of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who said it would be a cause for war if Greece moves to expand its maritime limits from 6 to 12 miles.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
TORONTO (AP) — Police said nine people are facing charges in what authorities are calling the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago.
Allman Brothers Band co-founder and legendary guitarist Dickey Betts dies at 80 Dickey Betts, who died Thursday at age 80, really was born a ramblin’ man.
NEW YORK — New York police removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on Thursday and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including the daughter of a prominent Minnesota congresswoman.
ATHENS - The special 'Easter Basket,' which offers traditional Easter foods at lower or unchanged prices, will come into effect from April 24 to May 4.
LIVERPOOL - Liverpool failed to overcome a three-goal deficit and was eliminated from the Europa League on Thursday despite beating Atalanta 1-0 in the second leg of their quarterfinal matchup.