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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.
KASTANIES, Evros – Frontex will launch its rapid border intervention for Greece by land and sea as of Wednesday, according to the EU border agency’s spokesperson Ewa Moncure speaking to German news agency DPA.
Moncure said some 100 officials of emergency services would be dispatched to the Evros borders with Turkey starting next week, while the assistance to the Greek islands would consist mostly of ships or helicopters.
All EU countries have pledged their help, Moncure was quoted as saying, and the assistance has been scheduled for two months with the option of being extended.
Frontex’s executive director announced on March 2 (Monday) that the request for emergency help had come on Sunday night by the Greek government, which was trying to manage the large numbers of migrants at its borders with Turkey which are also the EU’s external borders.
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.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.