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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 – The Turkish-Cypriot government on the unlawfully occupied northern third of the island is dropping a requirement that Cypriots must have a visa slip and stamp to visit.
The island has been divided since a Turkish invasion in 1974 but hopes for reunification have arisen with the election of a moderate, Mustafa Akinci, as Turkish-Cypriot President after a series hardliners.
The end of the visa rule, reported by BGN News, didn’t say whether the gesture was designed to show goodwill as the talks are set to resume, and as Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades supplied Akinci with the location of land mines in mountains planted in 1974.
No longer will a visa slip and a stamp be required at border crossings, but rather simply presenting one’s ID will be enough to cross between the two states.
The borders between the two areas was first opened on April 23, 2003. Only Turkey, which keeps an army there, recognizes the northern territories as a sovereign state.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
BAYSIDE, NY – Daughters of Penelope (DOP) Ilion Chapter 135 continues to keep the light shining bright within.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.