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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.
With warships trying to keep foreign drill rigs at bay, Turkey will send the energy research vessel Barbaros again into Cyprus’ sovereign waters, cranking up the tension again in the wake of collapsed reunification talks.
Cyprus has licensed companies from the United States, France and Italy to look for oil and gas in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), parts of which Turkey doesn’t recognize and as Turkish ships forced a vessel from the Italian company Eni to turn away.
The seismographic ship of the Turkish Navy will be escorted by two support vessels, following the issue of a new NAVTEX directive by Turkey indicating it will operate unlawfully in parts of Cyprus’ EEZ with no challenge.
The Cypriot newspaper Phileleftheros published a map showing that the mission of Barbaros will be in a region starting four sea miles off the Apostolos Andreas Cape on the Karpasia peninsula, northeastern Cyprus, stretching east to the Syrian-Turkish borderline coastal point.
In the last couple of months Barbaros has also conducted seismic surveys for hydrocarbon reserves further to the northwest, in the area between the coast of Karpasia and the Turkish shore.
In an interview with Greece’s Ethnos newspaper, Greek government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said Turkey should back off its push off Cyprus, where the two countries, along with the United Kingdom, are guarantors of security.
Turkey has unlawfully occupied the northern third since a 1974 invasion and decades of diplomacy have failed to find a solution, the latest effort in July, 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana falling apart when Turkey refused to remove an army on the occupied territory and wanted the right to militarily intervene.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has asked the international community for help but has gotten only press releases in support from the European Union to which his country belongs and Turkey wants to join, and from the United States.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.