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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 – The Greek official who authorized a company to sell Predator spyware to Madagascar, which has one of the world’s worst record for human rights, stepped down although the scandal has subsided.
Secretary General of International Economic Affairs at the Greek Foreign Affairs Ministry Ioannis Smyrlis, handed in his resignation to Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, said the state-run Athens-Macedonia News Agency ANA-MPA.
It wasn’t indicated whether he was forced out although the incident embarrassed the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis which has denied using the spyware to surveil politicians, journalists and business executives among others.
Smyrlis is also the head of chair of Enterprise Greece, a trade and investor relation agency that tries to lure business to Greece. He said his resignation was for personal reasons but didn’t give any details.
“Today a very important cycle of reforms and successful actions is coming to completion for me and a new one opening up, as I have been enlisted on the electoral race for the new great victory of New Democracy,” he posted on social media without clarifying what he meant.
He said he had a “constructive collaboration with … Nikos Dendias and Deputy FM (Kostas) Fragogiannis,” and thanked Mitsotakis, whose government succeeded in burying a phone bugging and spyware scandal by saying it was for “national security,” and couldn’t be revealed.
The government passed a measure banning the sale of spyware and the offices of the company which was selling Predator had its Athens office raided by police but it was said to be mostly empty.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
CALIFORNIA - The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide Thursday as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread.
NEW YORK — The third day of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial concluded Thursday after Trump's lawyers got their first chance to question a witness on the stand.
ATLANTA — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud.
ATHENS - Voters should see the whole picture when they go to cast their ballot in the European Parliament elections on June 9, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview on Thursday.