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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.
Greek lawmaker Petros Konstantineas of the ruling left-wing SYRIZA was attacked by a gang of some 30 people and hospitalized after attending a soccer match with his son, claiming the assailants were right-wing supporters he recognized without identifying them.
He suffered minor injuries but was kept in a hospital overnight for observation, a fellow legislator said, with the incident drawing condemnation from all the major parties.
George Katrougalos, Aternate Foreign Minister for European affairs, said the attack happened in the told southwestern city of Kalamata.The state news agency AMNA said Konstantineas knew his attackers but no reason was given for the incident.
Police reported they detained five suspects. Konstantineas, a 40-year-old baker and retired soccer referee, was elected to Parliament in 2015 when SYRIZA came to power.
Police in the southern Peloponnese on Monday arrested five suspects who had been remanded. Ranging in age from 26-37, the detained suspects were charged with physically and verbally assaulting the lawmaker, said the business newspaper Naftemporiki.
The assault was said to have happened near a sports bar after local media said the attackers got into a battle of words with the lawmaker.
(Material from the Associated Press was used in this report)
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.
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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.