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1 week ago | 
thenationalherald.com | Achilleas Kouremenos
LOS ANGELES – The long-awaited ‘Stelios’, the biographical film about Stelios Kazantzidis (1931-2001), the legendary popular laiká and rebetika Greek… Continue reading ‘Stelios’ West Coast Premiere Kazantizidis Biopic May 4, Opens U.S. & Canada May 9
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4 weeks ago | 
thenationalherald.com | Daniella Matar |Achilleas Kouremenos
SPORTS Milan (AP) — Former Bayern Munich defender Benjamin Pavard scored against his old club to help Inter Milan to a 2-2 draw against the German team on Wednesday, sending the Nerazzurri through to the Champions League semifinals 4-3 on aggregate. It was Pavard’s first goal for Inter, after the France international joined from Bayern in 2023.
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4 weeks ago | 
thenationalherald.com | Eleni Sakellis |Achilleas Kouremenos
WHITESTONE, NY – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America presided over the Holy Unction service on Holy Wednesday, April 16, at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church in Whitestone, assisted by the presiding priest of the community Fr. Nicolaos Paros, Chancellor of the Direct Archdiocesan District Fr. Elias Villis, Fr. Peter Daratsos, Archdeacon Dionysios Papiris, and Deacon Jeremiah Mandoras. The church was filled with the faithful who received Holy Unction as Holy Week continues.
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4 weeks ago | 
thenationalherald.com | Isaac Scharf |Wafaa Shurafa |Achilleas Kouremenos
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s defense minister said Wednesday that troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, remarks that could further complicate talks with Hamas over a ceasefire and hostage release. Israeli forces have taken over more than half of Gaza in a renewed campaign to pressure Hamas to release hostages after Israel ended their ceasefire last month.
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1 month ago | 
thenationalherald.com | Christodoulos Athanasatos |Achilleas Kouremenos
NEW YORK – Determined to go as far as needed, including reaching the proper authorities, in order to prevent the creation of a bike lane on 31st Street in Astoria – from Newtown Avenue up to 36th Avenue – Greek-American business owners active in the area spoke to The National Herald about the problems it will create.
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1 month ago | 
thenationalherald.com | Gonzalo Solano |Regina Garcia Cano |Achilleas Kouremenos
WORLD QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorian voters weary of crime reelected President Daniel Noboa, a conservative young millionaire with a divisive no-holds-barred crimefighting record, by a wide margin Sunday, but his opponent vowed to seek a recount over what she described as “grotesque” electoral fraud.
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1 month ago | 
thenationalherald.com | Theodore Kalmoukos |Achilleas Kouremenos
Thursday, April 10th, is a significant day for our Church and our Greek-American community in America because on this day, twenty years ago, Archbishop Iakovos of North and South America passed away. That means he left the realm of time, but not of existence. Iakovos continues to exist, but ‘in another form’, having left a lasting mark for many decades on the heart and course of the Archdiocese and our Community. Twenty years have gone by as if it were yesterday.
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1 month ago | 
thenationalherald.com | Mattias Karén |Achilleas Kouremenos
SPORTS LONDON (AP) — Declan Rice put Arsenal on the brink of reaching the Champions League semifinals by curling home two free kicks that Real Madrid’s most famous “galacticos” would have been proud of.
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1 month ago | 
thenationalherald.com | Theodore Kalmoukos |Achilleas Kouremenos
BOSTON – Following the successful parades in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, and Chicago, it is now Boston’s turn – the city of wisdom, knowledge, science, arts, culture, and humanism. Boston is feverishly preparing, as explained by Eleni Vidalis, president of the Federation of Hellenic-American Societies of New England.
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1 month ago | 
thenationalherald.com | Theodore Kalmoukos |Achilleas Kouremenos
BOSTON – At this year’s Boston parade, scheduled to take place on Sunday, April 27, and at related events such as the official dinner on the evening of Saturday, April 26, the Haitian Community of Boston will be honored, as Haiti was the first country to recognize Greece’s freedom from the Turks.
