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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 – A total of 24 incidents involving boatloads of migrants – with a total of 1,130 people seeking to illegally enter Greek waters from the coast of Turkey – were recorded between the morning of June 24 and the morning of June 27 in the seas near Lesvos, Chios, Kos and Rhodes.
Of the above, 745 foreign nationals in 16 boats attempted to reach the island of Lesvos.
All boats were intercepted on time and did not enter Greek waters, while all the foreign nationals on board were collected by Turkish patrol boats.
According to a shipping and island policy ministry announcement, the Coast Guard is taking all appropriate measures in the context of the national measures against the migration crisis for the effective protection of the Greek and EU sea borders, with determination and respect for international law and protection of human life at sea as a top priority, as behooves the Coast Guard as its highest professional and moral duty.
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.
BAYSIDE, NY – Daughters of Penelope (DOP) Ilion Chapter 135 continues to keep the light shining bright within.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.