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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 – Their countries are often at a near-conflict point over rights to the seas and other disputes, but Greece and Turkey put all that aside to inaugurate a ‘friendship line’ ferry between Thessaloniki and the seaside town of Izmir in western Turkey.
The Greek-based shipping company Levante Ferries announced the MV Smyrna di Levante vessel started passenger and freight services between the two countries on Oct. 7, an ironic name given that Smyrna was the-then Greek city burned and seized in 1922 when Turkey defeated Greece in war.
The Thessaloniki-Izmir ferry line marks the first direct maritime link between mainland Greece and Turkey, although there are direct links between some Greek islands in the Aegean and Turkish ports, noted Turkey’s pro-government newspaper The Daily Sabah in a report. The ship’s test voyage was from Thessaloniki with 119 passengers.
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.