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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 — Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis and French President Emmanuel Macron, in a series of contacts and a phone call, discussed relations between the countries, tourism in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic that’s still going on and Turkish aggression.
The talk was a preparation for a European Union meeting on July 17-18 and focused on Turkey’s plans to drill for energy off Crete and claiming Greek waters near islands and part of the Continental Shelf under a maritime deal with Libya dividing the waters.
Their call came after Macron tore into Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for sending military aid to a United Nations-recognized government in Libya with whom he made the deal, as Greece and some other countries face rebels in another part of that country.
Macron wants the EU, which has been soft on Turkey and Erdogan, to get tougher but there’s been no political will go confront him, the bloc’s leaders fearful he will unleash more refugees and migrants on the bloc through Greece.
Turkey is holding some 5.5 million refugees and migrants who went there fleeing war and strife in their homelands, especially Afghanistan and Syria’s civil war, and is supposed to contain them under a 2016 swap deal with the EU.
That has been essentially-suspended with Turkey continuing to let human traffickers flood Greek islands and Erdogan trying to get some across Greece’s land border, upset that the bloc hasn’t sent him 3 billion euros ($3.37 billion) held back from the deal for now.
Mitsotakis earlier told members of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) there’s still enough in the till to get Greece through a difficult year although tourism could plummet as much as 70-75 percent for 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.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Greek Cypriots of New Jersey under the auspices of the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations, the Consulate General of the Republic of Cyprus in New York and Consul General of Cyprus Michalis Firillas will commemorate the 69th Anniversary of the EOKA Liberation Struggle of Cyprus from British Colonial Rule 1955-1959, with a memorial service at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Ascension, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, NJ, on Sunday, March 31.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said.
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.