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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 – France’s gentler, kinder dealings with Greece during a more than eight-year-long economic crisis are preferred to those of Germany, the biggest contributor to 326 billion euros ($377.35 billion) in three bailouts, a survey showed.
Germany has demanded and gotten in return harsh austerity measures that have devastated the lives of many Greeks, especially workers, pensioners and the poor with Chancellor Angela Merkel sticking to a punishing hard line to insure her country’s banks get paid and make big profits off Greece’s misery, making her a hated figure to Greeks.
The Pulse RC survey that was commissioned by Kathimerini ewspaper, found that France and China are the two countries most admired by Greeks with the French getting 63 percent support and China, which has invested heavily in the country and runs the port of Piraeus, coming in second at 54 percent.
The United States, allegedly an ideological enemy of Greece’s ruling Radical Left SYRIZA was third with 49 percent as Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader is trying to closen ties with the US after threatening to end any American military presence in Greece.
The authors of the survey said positive opinion for both France and China could be explained by the mentality of the Greeks and the multiculturalism of Greek society, a mixture of Western and Eastern cultural characteristics, the paper said, and as both countries have frequently expressed support for Greece during its troubles.
Russia and Turkey, which has been constantly provoking Greece, sending more fighter jets and warships into Greek airspace and waters, joined Germany as the least-liked by Greeks.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 13 people, authorities said.
TORONTO - Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter was banned for life from the NBA on Wednesday after a league probe found he disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and wagered on games, even betting on the Raptors to lose.
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his country would be the one to decide whether and how to respond to Iran’s major air assault earlier this week, brushing off calls for restraint from close allies.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday he strongly supports a proposal from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending crucial bipartisan support to the precarious effort to approve $95 billion in funding for the U.
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders over a two-day summit of the special European Council will discuss economic and competitiveness issues in Ukraine, Türkiye, the Middle East and Lebanon, stated Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis upon his arrival in Brussels on Wednesday night.