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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.
THESSALONIKI – A 20-year-old man who fled to his native Albania after the murder of a Greek student in Thessaloniki by a gang of attackers, in what was said to be over soccer rivalries, appeared before a magistrate and was given time to prepare his defense.
That came after he turned himself in to Albanian authorities who swiftly turned him over to Greek officials at the border before he was taken to the court in Greece’s second-largest city, where the attack occurred.
His lawer told Kathimerini about the surrender after earlier claiming that his client didn’t take part in the attack that killed 19-year-0ld Alkis Kambanos by a gang of PAOK fans who hate their rivals, Aris, the two sides in violent confrontations.
The victim was hit on the head with a crowbar while pleading with his attackers to stop and stabbed in the leg with a curved karambit knife and bleeding so profusely that he died.
Reports said that the attackers demanded to know which team he supported and when it wasn’t theirs that they started the assault that turned deadly with 10 arrested so far, with more possible.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.