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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 – Protesters outside Greece’s Parliament furious at anti-nationalist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for giving away the name Macedonia were tear gassed by riot police who kept them away in a violent clash.
The Radical Left SYRIZA leader agreed to let the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) be called North Macedonia, although it’s abutted by the ancient Greek province o the same name.
Tsipras’ deal also lets North Macedonians refer to themselves as Macedonians and their language to be Macedonia, leading angry Greeks to denounce him and his party as turncoats and take on police during a no-confidence vote in the Parliament his coalition controls, which saw them rebuff the attempt by the major rival New Democracy to censure him.
Reuters witnesses saw police fire at least two rounds of teargas at individuals who tried to scale stairs outside Parliament, the news agency said in a report on the battle.
“Traitors, traitors,” up to 5,000 protesters gathered in the central Syntagma square chanted.
“I’m furious. That person (Tsipras) is not working in the national interests or the national sentiment of Greeks,” demonstrator Sophia Constantinidou, 45, said.
Dissenting Greeks say North Macedonia is trying to keep claiming Greece’s heritage and culture. The ceremony to sign the name was set for June 17 although neither Parliament has ratified it.
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.