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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.
With tension ratcheting up after Turkey put two energy drill ships in Cyprus’ sovereign waters, the government has approved new licenses for France’s Total and Italy’s ENI to explore a block in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ,) parts of which Turkey doesn’t recognize.
The two companies already had a presence in the EEZ, along with the United States energy giant ExxonMobil, which reported a major gas find earlier, leading to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sending in drillships in defiance of Cyprus, Greece, the United States, and bringing soft sanctions from the European Union.
Turkey argues the Cypriot EEZ infringes on its own continental shelf and that the granting of licenses to foreign companies violates the rights of Turkish-Cypriots who have been unlawfully occupying the northern third since an unlawful 1974 invasion there.
Cyprus has divided its EEZ into 13 blocks and Turkey has made claims to parts of blocks one, four, six and and seven, where Total and ENI were given licenses. Turkey sent warships into the area and last year scared off a research vessel from ENI.
Greece’s new New Democracy government said said the Turkish drilling for energy in Cyprus’ sovereign waters puts the whole region at risk of a conflict, but was ignored once again.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades accused Erdogan of an “energy invasion” of the island where Turkey still keeps a 35,000-strong army on the occupied land.
“The illegal actions of Turkey, which defy international law are placing the security of the region at risk. As such, they are absolutely condemnable,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias told reporters after meeting his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, said the news agency Reuters.
“We discussed this flagrant violation of the sovereignty and the sovereign rights of the Republic of Cyprus perpetrated by Turkey,” Dendias said, hours after returning from a trip to Cyprus.
Greece and Turkey, along with the former Colonial ruler the United Kingdom, which still has military bases there, are guarantors of security for the island, along with a United Nations peacekeeping force.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it.
PISCATAWAY, NJ – The Eastern Federation of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians (EFGOCM) presents its 31st annual ‘Spirit of Lent’ choral concert on Friday, April 26, 7:30 PM, at St.
CRETE – The Cretan Olive Oil Competition (COOC) celebrated its 10th anniversary and the accomplishments of Cretan olive oil producers with an awards ceremony and informative seminars in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, on March 31.
BOSTON – Archbishop Elpidophoros of America filed a lawsuit against Sotirios Tzoumas, publisher of the Athens-based ecclesiastical news agency Exapsalmos.
After Starbucks fired seven workers who were trying to unionize their Tennessee store, a U.