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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.
MADRID – NATO leaders at a Madrid meeting couldn’t convince a stubborn Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to talk to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who’s been getting the silent treatment from him.
Erdogan has stopped talking to Mitsotakis and cut off most communications with Greece – their defense ministers spoke – irked that the Greek leader in an address to the US Congress urged lawmakers to reject President Joe Biden’s plan to sell Turkey more F-16s and upgrade its Air Force.
At the meeting, Erdogan wouldn’t meet or speak with the Greek leader who later said only that he would keep trying diplomacy with the volatile Turkish leader who pulled his threat to veto the entry hopes of Finland and Sweden to NATO.
That led to Biden reiterating his push to sell Turkey more fighter jets that could be used against Greece in a conflict although the US government insisted it was a coincidence and had nothing to do with Erdogan not standing in the way of Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
Erdogan refused a proposal to sit down with the Greek premier in a bid to de-escalate heightened tensions between the two neighbors, because “Athens continues to militarize Aegean islands,” his state-run news agency said.
Flying back from Madrid, Erdogan repeated he wants nothing to do with Mitsotakis and said that,“As long as he doesn’t pull himself together, it is not possible for us to meet,” according to Reuters.
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.