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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 — Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance on Wednesday asked the government to postpone the debate and vote on the draft education bill, in order to avoid protest action and a rally scheduled on Wednesday in the midst of the pandemic.
In an announcement, SYRIZA called on the government to "put aside its obsessions, if only for the time being, and rise to the occasion by postponing the debate and vote on the draft bill on education, which justifiably causes reactions and mobilisations within the educational community."
"When 24,000 pupils are excluded from universities, when the terms of university entrance exams are changed in the midst of a year when lyceums never opened, and when instead of hiring teachers we have the hiring of 1,000 special guards, it goes without saying that there will be reactions," said the announcement.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
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.