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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.
After pulling back thousands of refugees and migrants it sent to Greece’s northern border, Turkey is showing signs of new provocations, including sending energy research vessels off the island of Kastellorizo.
That came after Turkey earlier this year signed a maritime deal with Libya, dividing the seas between them and with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan saying he would send a drill ship off Crete.
Kastellorizo is one of the Greek islands closest to the Turkish coast and seen as a likely target for a takeover if Turkey makes a military move at the same time Erdogan is pushing for oil and gas drilling in the Aegean and East Mediterranean, including off Cyprus.
The Turkish research vessel Oruc Reis, accompanied by two support ships and a frigate, sailed up to 50 nautical miles southeast of Kastellorizo in what Greece’s New Democracy sees as another test of the government’s resolve, said Kathimerini.
Turkey also issued a Navigational Telex (NAVTEX) reserving an area containing blocks 4 and 5 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) with Greece closely watching at the same time monitoring the land border near the Evros River.
That’s where Turkey sent some 10,000 migrants on Feb. 28, setting off days of clashes over the fence with Greek riot police and army units guarding the border, breaking the terms of an already essentially-suspended 2016 swap deal with the European Union.
The newspaper said Greek authorities were still anxious that Turkey might again try to urge migrants to breach the border during the COVID-19 pandemic that has countries restricting and locking down movement out of fear.
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.
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.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.