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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 – Greek luxury line Zeus+Dione announced on Friday it is cancelling its participation in a fashion show planned outside the ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus, to avoid turning the event into a “field of barren political attack”, following press reports focusing on one of the company’s founders, Mareva Grabowski, the spouse of New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The event was planned for April 8 as part of the 23nd Athens Xclusive Designers Week (AXDW), Athens biggest fashion event, which is running from March 29 to April 1 at Zappeion Hall. Greece’s Central Archaeological Council (KAS) had given the green light for the AXDW to use the yard right outside the Odeon.
“We regret that we cannot proceed with this event because the interest – even from the first news reports – was removed from the purely professional, promotional and cultural character of such an event and focused on Mareva Grabowski,” the company said.
“With immense respect, first of all in the history of the monument’s space and the KAS committee, we decided to cancel our participation in this happening to avoid turning, once again, a cultural and artistic event into a field of barren political attack, with cannibalistic elements,” it added.
Grabowski founded the line with Dimitra Kolotoura in 2012.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.