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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 — The remains of Greek soldiers from Western Macedonia who died during the Greek-Italian war of 1940-1941 in Albania will be identified through blood samples provided by living relatives in the region, authorities said on Friday.
Western Macedonia regional director George Kassapidis, whose initiative this is, will coordinate with other subregions and metropolitan areas in the efforts to send samples to the 401st Military Hospital's Center of Molecular Biology, which will do the analysis.
Relatives who may give blood are divided into matrilineal or patrilineal lines, and who is eligible is detailed in the related documents. Two blood samples per relative will be collected at home by "Help at Home" staff and volunteers of the township, overseen by medical associations, as of September.
The collection will be covered by the Region of Western Macedonia, which has set up coordinating centers for information to relativs.
Of the total 13,936 Greek soldiers and officers who died or went missing in Albania during the Greek-Italian war, less than half (5,960) have been returned and buried in military hospitals in Greece, while the remains of 7,796 have been buried or left at battle fields in Albania. Among the latter are 897 individuals who originate from Western Macedonia and metropolitan areas of Kozani, Kastoria, Florina and Grevena.
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.