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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 – Warning refugees and migrants that the country isn’t a stepping stone to reach other European Union destinations, Cyprus is using a social media drive called Let’s Talk Truth About Cyprus to advise them not to come to seek asylum.
It’s directed mostly at countries in sub-Saharan Africa and says that 96 percent of applications for sanctuary are rejected and the rest bring a five-year EU entry ban, reported Reuters.
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The information campaign was undertaken to counter a spike in irregular migration, authorities said, the island country having the highest rate of inflows to the EU per capita for the last six years.
Cyprus is not a member of the EU’s visa-free Schengen Area, meaning that an irregular migrant could be stranded there. “Traffickers wrongly portray Cyprus as an interim stop for an onward journey to Europe, ignoring the fact that it’s an island” said Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou.
Some 95 percent cross the dividing line from the Turkish-Cypriot occupied northern third to the Greek-Cypriot side that’s in the EU despite United Nations patrols and checkpoints designed to regulate passage.
Many asylum seekers arrive on the island itself on student visas to privately-run universities on the northern side just to get on the island and get across to the other side in hopes of being granted asylum.
Ioannou said additional guards were being added as well as other resources to try to keep them out and deal with the asylum applications, a new government planning to set up a Migration Ministry to deal with it.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.