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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 — Cyprus Defense Minister Savvas Angelides, after briefing his European Union peers about Turkey's drilling for energy in the island's sovereign waters, said the bloc should have more a naval presence as a deterrence.
There has been appetite from the EU, however, to take on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, even exempting him and top officials from soft sanctions aimed at convincing Turkey to stop the drilling, which hasn't worked.
The EU has a border patrol called Frontex but that is designed to keep out migrants and refugees, which has failed as well, with Greek islands overrun by them, sent there by Turkey during an essentially-suspended 2016 swap deal with the EU.
Turkey is supposed to hold 5.5 million refugees and migrants who went there fleeing war and strife from their homelands but has allowed human traffickers to keep operating at the same time Erdogan sent energy ships into Cypriot waters, undeterred.
He was speaking at a teleconference between EU defense ministers who discussed ways of increasing the bloc’s involvement at the operational level as well as defensive initiatives and structures under the Common Defense and Security Policy.
Angelides said the EU's operational commitment should step up, reported Kathimerini Cyprus, but it wasn't said what that would entail, such as warships from EU member countries as the bloc doesn't have a common military.
France, with the French energy company Total having a license to drill in Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ,) has sent ships to the area but Italy's navy hasn't moved to protect the Italy company ENI there.
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.