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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.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is calling on rival parties in Cyprus “to show real political will and responsibility and make the necessary compromises” to reunify the divided Mediterranean island.
The council said after a closed-door briefing Tuesday by U.N. envoy Elizabeth Spehar that the parties should “engage meaningfully” with the United Nations and “urgently build on the progress achieved towards a bizonal, bicommunal federal solution to the Cyprus issue.”
Council members welcomed the appointment of Jane Holl Lute, a U.N. official and former U.S. deputy Homeland Security secretary, as a consultant to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “on Cyprus settlement.”
Negotiations between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders a year ago failed. The U.N. said Lute will sound out all parties to see if conditions have ripened to resume peace talks.
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.