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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.
Still worried that Turkey might again try to get refugees and migrants to cross over, Greece is building another fence on the border, a 62.9-million-euro ($73.7 million) project in the area of Feres.
It's being constructed by a consortium of four companies, said Kathimerini and will be 27 kilometers (16.77 miles) long, not enough to cover the border with no explanation why people couldn't just go around it.
There will be eight elevated observatories built and manned by the Greek army with outposts being sentry spots to try to catch people before they can sneak across into Greece.
An existing fence in the region, which was damaged in 2015, will be reinforced with a steel railing measuring 4.3 meters (14.1 feet) in height, instead of the current 3.5 meters (11.48 feet), still likely accessible with ladders.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will visit the area near the Evros River to survey the work with Greece entangled in rising tensions with Turkey which is planning to drill for energy in waters off Greek islands.
In February and March, just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent 10,000 refugees and migrants by bus to the border and urged them to cross but they were repelled by Greek riot police and army units.
Under an essentially-suspended 2016 swap deal with the European Union, Turkey is supposed to contain some 4.4 million refugees and migrants who went there fleeing war, strife and economic misery in their homelands but has allowed human traffickers to keep sending them to five Greek islands.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
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.