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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.
Ignored repeatedly by the United Nations after protesting Turkish incursions into its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ,) Cyprus’ legitimate government has sent the coordinates of its waters where Turkey is drilling for oil and gas.
The data shows the EEZ and the continental shelf but Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has shown he intends to forge ahead with drilling after his warships weren’t able to keep out foreign companies from the waters, including the US energy giant ExxonMobil which reported a major gas find.
Cypriot Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides said President Nicos Anastasiades will be convening the National Council to discuss the latest Turkish actions off Cyprus and that the coordinates would also be published in the government gazette.
Christodoulides said that Cyprus, a member of the European Union that Turkey wants to join while refusing to recognize the government and barring Cypriot ships and planes, has contacted bloc officials about Turkey violating sovereign waters and to plan measures.
Cypriot authorities have launched procedures to have an international arrest warrant issued for the crew of Turkey’s Fatih drillship off Cyprus, said Kathimerini but Erdogan said he has no intention of backing off and has defied Cyprus, the EU, UN and the United States.
The Israeli Ambassador to Cyprus Sammy Revel said his country, working with Cyprus over energy deals, also objects to Turkish drilling.
“Israel is following with serious concern recent steps taken by Turkey in Cyprus EEZ, off its western coast,” Revel wrote on Twitter.
“Israel reiterated its full support and solidarity with Cyprus in exercising its sovereign rights in its EEZ and expresses its opposition to any attempt to violate these rights,” he also added.
The US State Department called on Turkey to reverse its decision to begin drilling operations off Cyprus, describing it as “highly provocative” and saying it “risks raising tensions in the region,” but so far Turkey has been subjected to press release denunciations and no real sanctions over what Cyprus said is unlawful activity.
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.