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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 – Former finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos of the major opposition SYRIZA said the New Democracy government has been fudging the number of COVID-19 cases as the leftists picked up their verbal assault on the government’s handling of the pandemic.
With a second wave still overtaking the country despite a second – more lenient – lockdown, Tsakalotos said Finance Minister Christos Staikouras has been twisting the data.
Tsakalotos said Greece also is near the bottom of the list in the European Union for spending programs to deal with the Coronavirus despite receiving 32 billion euros ($38.87 billion) in loans and grants.
He spoke after Staikouras said that Greece is 19th in spending among the 27 member states, leading Tsakalotos to say that it’s because “quite simply other countries have not updated their data.”
Tsakalotos didn’t provide any specifics for his allegations that came as the number of cases, deaths and people in public hospital Intensive Care Units (ICU’s) and ventilators remains stubbornly high during another lockdown that’s not set to lift until at least Jan. 7, 2021.
The government said that as of Dec. 13, when there were 693 more cases and 85 deaths that the totals had risen to 124,534 infections and 3,625 fatalities, the government deciding against easing of the lockdown during the Christmas to Epiphany Day on Jan. 6, 2021.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.
For Muslim soccer players in deeply secular France, observing Ramadan is a tall order, and this is not about to change.