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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.
ΑΤΗΕΝS — Greece will keep its channels of communication with Turkey open, despite the fact that the neighboring country is acting without logic, Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias said on Monday, reviewing his trip to New York for the 76th UN General Assembly meetings.
"Greece must leave behind a stereotype of a Balkan-style Turkey-centric provincialism in its foreign policy," he said, and "open its wings to the new reality," investing in its current relationships and building new ones.
Dendias said he had 17 official and several unoffical meetings with counterparts of other countries, some bilateral and others multilateral, besides accompanying Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on his scheduled contacts. Greece reached out to "countries that Greece does not traditionally maintain relationships" including countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, he noted, "to open new channels of communication with countries that are active on the international stage, both as members of the UN Security Council and in general." With particular countries like Angola, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana and Rwanda there was never any foreign ministry contact up to now, he said.
Contacts were also to boost Greece's candidacy as non-permanent membership on the UN Security Council for 2025-2026, Dendias noted. Other topics included in talks involved climate change and the migration-refugee issue, the role of women in peace and security, free passage in shipping, and freedom of the press.
Dendias also spoke of his private meeting with US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, ahead of his visit to the United States on October 14 for the Greece-US Strategic Dialog and the Mutual Defence Cooperation Agreement.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.