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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.
ΑΤΗΕΝS – After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced a closer military alliance between the United States and Greece, American and Greek troops held a joint military exercise near the Turkish border.
The US and Greek forces conducted wet-gap crossing operations in northern Greece, said Kathimerini, a video on social media by the US Army Europe and Africa account showing troops from the 1-16th infantry regiment practicing river crossings with Greek soldiers by the Nestos river, near the city of Xanthi.
The exercises were held as part of the wider Olympic Cooperation 2021 initiative, a maneuver and live-fire exercise between Greece and the United States to enhance tactical and operational cohesion among both militaries, the paper said.
It came a few weeks after the US and Greece renewed a military cooperation agreement designed to allow for a greater American military presence and more bases in Greece.
Turkey has been provoking Greece with repeated violations of air space and waters with fighter jets and warships and plans to go ahead with looking for energy off Greek islands, bringing renewed fears of a confrontation.
The US, however, has a military presence as well at a Turkish base there and tries to walk the line between supporting both countries but has barred Turkey from buying F-35 fighter jets after Erdogan went ahead and bought a Russian-made S-400 missile defense system.
That could be used against Greece in a conflict and undermines NATO, to which all three countries belong, but which has refused to intervene over constant Turkish provocations, unwilling to take on the volatile Erdogan.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
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.