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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.
Turkish-Cypriot police were reportedly questioning a suspect alleged to have gotten narcotics from a drone sent over a military zone from the Cypriot side of the divided island.
There is a buffer between the two sides patrolled by a United Nations peacekeeping force an Turkey keeps a standing 30,000-strong force on the side it has unlawfully occupied since a 1974 invasion, in an area said to be one of the most heavily guarded in Europe.
Smugglers are trying to use drones fly illegal drugs over the frontier separating the sides, Police there said the drone is believed to have taken off from the Cypriot side of the divided Capital of Nicosia, according to the Turkish-Cypriot Kibris newspaper and Turkey’s private DHA agency.
The reports did not disclose the type of drug that was seized. Turkish-Cypriot police were not available for comment and Greek Cypriot police said they had no information about the incident, as did the United Nations force which monitors the frontier, the news agency Reuters said.
The heavily militarized 180-kilometer (116 mile) frontier splitting Cyprus east to west runs straight through the center of Nicosia.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CLOSTER, NJ – The well-attended Greek Independence Day Celebration in Closter, NJ, took place on March 25, beginning with the Flag Raising Ceremony at Ruckman Park in Closter.
While the Prime Minister of the country was in Canada, the leader of PASOK – the third party according to the latest elections – raised the issue of mistrust in the government, followed by the other.
ALBANY – New York State Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R, C-Staten Island/Brooklyn) on March 26 was joined in Albany by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America to recognize Greek Independence Day and the 50th anniversary of the illegal Turkish invasion and continued occupation of Cyprus.
ATHENS - Historic member of PASOK and passionate advocate of the recognition of Pontian Greek genocide Michalis Charalambidis died on Wednesday aged 73.
ATHENS - While the New Democracy government denied audio files from the 2023 head-on train crash in Tempe which killed 57 had been tampered with, five managers at the state-run OSE railways agency reportedly had access to them.