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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 – Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said Turkey’s attempts to make claims on Greek territories won’t succeed because they violate international laws – which Turkey doesn’t recognize in some cases.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been stepping up provocations in the Aegean, including sending fighter jets to violate Greek airspace and warships past Greek islands, said he doesn’t accept the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne that set borders between the countries and wants the return of some islands off Turkey’s coast ceded to Greece.
Kotzias said Turkey has submitted to the United Nations a document containing “erroneous positions” regarding Greek territory in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean and is trying to present such claims as lawful.
After speaking in Nicosia with Cyprus’ Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides – with Turkish warships trying to keep foreign energy companies from drilling off the island’s coast – Kotzias said Erdogan won’t succeed in manipulating international laws.
Turkey also also claims that part of an area where Cyprus is conducting an offshore gas search falls within its own continental shelf but Christodoulides said Cyprus’ gas search fully abides by international law.
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.
LONDON, UK – Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark is set to marry her lawyer fiancé this fall in Athens, according to media reports – “after the couple previously postponed their wedding date twice,” Tatler reported, noting that Theodora, “who was born in London, started dating Matthew Kumar in 2016, with the couple announcing their engagement in November 2018.
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.