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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.
ATHENS — The planning of joint exercises after 2021, which also includes the execution by Greece of the 2022 Combined Joint Special Operations Exercise (CJSE), was presented during a meeting of the Chiefs of Defence of the Balkan countries, which took place on Tuesday in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Referring to the summit, the Hellenic National Defence General Staff Chief General Konstantinos Floros stressed its special importance for promoting stability in the region, for strengthening cooperation between the armed forces of the participating countries and ensuring good neighbourly relations in the framework of international law.
On the sidelines of the summit, Floros had a bilateral meeting with his Bosnia and Herzegovina counterpart Lieutenant General Senad Masovic, during which issues of mutual interest were discussed with emphasis on further strengthening bilateral military cooperation.
He also met with the Greek Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dimitrios Papandreou, with whom they discussed current regional and international developments, as well as relations between the two countries and ways to strengthen them on a military basis.
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.