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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 – Joint police and military patrols are being launched along ethnically split Cyprus’ dividing line to counter an influx of migrants crossing from the breakaway north, the country’s interior minister said Monday.
Nicos Nouris told state broadcaster CyBC that the patrols will be on a 24-hour basis in and around the divided capital. The measure will be reviewed at the end of next month to gauge its effectiveness.
The minister said police officers are accompanying soldiers on patrols because military personnel aren’t authorized to detain civilians. Additional, nightly patrols by elite police unit members will also be set in motion to bolster citizens’ sense of security, Nouris said.
Cyprus’ 180-kilometer-long, United Nations-controlled buffer zone is narrowest at Nicosia’s medieval core, where only a few meters separate the two sides, and has become relatively porous in sections where guard posts are no longer manned.
Cyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded in the wake of a coup by supporters of union with Greece.
Cypriot authorities say the country is a leader among European Union member states in the number of migrant arrivals relative to its population.
Officials say the vast majority of arrivals enter the country from the north and cross into the internationally recognized south to apply for asylum.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
CALIFORNIA - The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide Thursday as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread.
NEW YORK — The third day of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial concluded Thursday after Trump's lawyers got their first chance to question a witness on the stand.
ATLANTA — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud.
ATHENS - Voters should see the whole picture when they go to cast their ballot in the European Parliament elections on June 9, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview on Thursday.