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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 – As Greek and Turkish officials are due to meet in Athens in March for a second session of resumed exploratory talks – for the 61st time – the European Union will the same month discuss how to ratchet down the tension over claims to the seas.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis late in 2020 withdrew his demand for sanctions to give diplomacy a chance, only to renew them when that didn’t work, and pulled back again to let the technical talks resume.
The strategic debate on the Eastern Mediterranean and the EU-Turkish relationship will take place in March, said the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, representing the heads of state of the 27 member states.
Speaking after a summit of EU leaders, Michel noted Turkey’s importance as a member of the defense alliance without noting it had acquired a Russian-made S-400 missile defense that could undermine NATO and Greece in a conflict.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.
PARIS (AP) — The second retractable roof at Roland Garros will be inaugurated on the opening day of the French Open next month, organizers said on Thursday about a project planned with the Paris Olympics in mind.