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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 – With high-profile politicians being released from prison early after claiming health problems, two terminal cancer patients were denied, one of whom died after making an amateur video appealing to get out.
Supreme Court Prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou asked the authorities of the capital’s high-security Korydallos Prison to hand over medical files and documents of the patients after reports their request to get out were turned down despite deteriorating health.
Dimitriou’s intervention followed news reports regarding the two terminal cancer patients. One, whose age was not revealed, was suffering from lung cancer but has died.
The second man, aged 91, was eventually transferred to the Metaxa Cancer Hospital in Piraeus after his appeals for release were rejected. Sources not identified told Kathimerini that a probe was ordered to find out whether any members of a judicial board who turned down the release requests should be disciplined.
While one died and the other isn’t getting out, former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos has been walking around Athens, released from prison in July, 2018 after serving only five years of a 20-year sentence for stealing scores of millions of euros from defense contracts.
He said he had multiple health problems after heart surgery. His wife, also convicted, was released after she appealed that she was a mother and they had been seen dining at luxury restaurants together.
Former Thessaloniki Mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos, sentenced to life for embezzling 17 million euros ($19.02 million) served only 29 months before being released in 2015 on health grounds as well. In April, a court commuted an eight-year sentence for a second conviction to three years for the former track star and sprint champion.
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.