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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 — Britain’s Foreign Secretary says the U.K.’s support for Cyprus amid talks aimed at reunifying the ethnically split island remains “rock solid.”
Boris Johnson said after talks with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades Wednesday that “come hell or high water, we are there for Cyprus now and in the future.”
He said the U.K. is “very impressed” with progress made in negotiations, and pledged “to be useful if we can” in the process.
A 1974 Turkish invasion that followed a coup aimed at uniting Cyprus with Greece split the island.
Intensive talks between Anastasiades, a Greek Cypriot, and breakaway Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci deadlocked last week amid a disagreement about how many people would be eligible to reclaim homes and property in zones each side will control in an envisioned federation.
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.
NEW YORK – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus attended a press conference at the Consulate General of Greece in New York on March 28 to continue to spread the word about postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections.
LONDON - A British Airways flight that started in Athens on January 3 just missed hitting a drone over the Kent countryside in England, coming within 5 feet at a height of 9,600 feet, the plane carrying 180 passengers and traveling 250 miles an hour.
It won’t pass through some French cities and towns that didn’t want it but the Olympic Torch for the Paris 2024 Games will be lit April 16 in Olympia by priestesses wearing outfits that some on social media found weren’t just right.
ATHENS - There were no injuries nor damage reported despite its intensity as a 5.