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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.
ATHENS – Another 400 border patrol officers will be hired in 2023 to better protect Greece’s borders, said Citizen Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos on Friday.
The minister was speaking after a meeting of his at the Ropodi region’s police headquarters on matters of security and migration. The minister also spoke at Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ presentation of the Eastern Macedonia & Thrace 2030 Development Program, held at the northern Greek city of Komotini on the same day.
Some 250 of these border patrol officers will assume their duties in the month of February and the other 150 will do so in coming months, he added.
Greece “is not prepared to accept even one irregular migrant,” he stressed, and he also called on Türkiye to “stop exploiting migrants and to respect the Greek borders, which are also the borders of Europe.”
Some 1,800 border patrol officers are now on active duty in the Evros region, Theodorikakos also told reporters, who, he underlined, in the year 2022 alone they prevented the illegal entry to Greece of some 260,000 people.
Futhermore, he noted, Greek police have, in the recent past, arrested more than 1400 human traffickers.
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.
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.
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.