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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.
The overcrowded refugee and detention center on the island of Lesbos was “reaching the boiling point,” the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned, urging more transfers to mainland camps.
There are some 15,000 refugees and migrants on islands near Turkey, which is allowing human traffickers to operate during a suspended swap deal with the European Union, which closed its borders to them, dumping the problem on Greece.
The Lesbos camp Mora has more than 7,000, most of them seeking asylum as a way to prevent being sent back to Turkey or their homelands but there are delays of up to two years or more, setting off frustration and violence between different ethnics groups.
The camp houses people from Iraq, Syria’s civil war, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Arabic countries and the BBC, which got inside with a video crew and described is the worst refugee center in the world.
Lesbos is the prime destination for refugees and migrants and in 2015 some one million passed through on their way to other EU countries before the door was slammed shut and other countries reneged on promises to help take some of the overload from Greece.
The Moria center was designed to hold 2,000 people and Charlie Yaxley, a UNHCR official, told reporters at a briefing that, “There are an increasing number of people presenting with mental health problems, the response and treatment is woefully inadequate,” the news agency Reuters reported.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.