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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.
NICOSIA – As has been done for decades routinely, a near-automatic extension of a United Nations peacekeeping force on Cyprus, where Turkey has occupied the northern third since an unlawful 1974 invasion, was recommended by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Joining a long line of his predecessors who had failed to bring the two sides together, he failed to broker a reunification deal when the last round of talks collapsed in July, 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana.
Those fell apart when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said a 35,000-strong army on the occupied side would never leave and as they demanded the right of further military intervention again when they wanted.
The extension of the peacekeeping force known as UNFICYP comes every six months and has been given unblinkingly for generations with signs the island may he headed for permanent partition with Turkey ratcheting up tensions by drilling for energy in Cypriot waters.
But Guterres, who after the Swiss debacle issued a report blaming nobody for anything, took another shot verbally at trying to get the quarreling sides to sit down again although Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said he wouldn’t talk while the Turkish army is on the island.
Still, Guterres said that, “I again urge the leaders, the guarantor powers, and other interested parties to make productive use of the coming period,” while giving the usual praise to UNFICYP for its role on keeping Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots from battling again.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it.
ATHENS – The world-famous humanoid robot Sophia filled the auditorium of the American Community Schools of Athens April 23, fascinating many in the audience.
ATHENS - The exact burial site of Plato has been identified, thanks to research conducted by the Italian Research Foundation, based on papyri from the site of Herculaneum, near Naples.
ATHENS - S&P credit rating agency upgraded Greece’s outlook to 'positive' from 'stable' on Friday, April 19, 2024 while maintaining the investment-grade rating of BBB-.
ATHENS - The Ministry of National Economy and Finance is pressing ahead with a legislative regulation, which it will submit to Parliament within the week or at the latest the following day, to slash the fees for POS transactions.