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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 — Villagers in Cyprus on Oct. 20 confronted British soldiers based on the east Mediterranean island over the cutting down of trees at a firing range, complaining that they were encroaching on the community’s prized wooded area.
British bases spokesman Kristian Gray said the standoff, which saw local residents from a village inside a British base encircling about 200 soldiers and blocking their trucks from leaving the area for several hours, ended peacefully.
Gray said the overnight military operation was meant to improve visibility and safety inside the firing range, situated along the island’s southeastern coastline.
Xylophagou community leader Tasos Anglogallos said hundreds of villagers converged on the site before dawn after discovering what was happening.
Anglogallos said villagers were angry that soldiers had cleared more than an acre of eucalyptus and other vegetation near the community’s only and much prized forested area.
“It’s our only green space and the community values it greatly,” Anglogallos told the AP.
Activists also complain that British authorities cleared the woods because the acacia trees in the area are used by locals to illegally trap songbirds served at restaurants as a delicacy.
According to activists, hundreds of thousands of the birds are trapped inside one of two military bases that Britain retained after Cyprus gained independence from British colonial rule in 1960.
(MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS)
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.