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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.
BRUSSELS – European Union leaders who had been reluctant to agree on a uniform price cap for natural gas whose costs exploded astronomically after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are close to setting a limit, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.
Speaking ahead of talks in Brussels on how to deal with the soaring energy prices that required his government to pay 90 percent of electric bills for households and help businesses, he said it looks like a cap is coming.
“I hope that after many months of consultation we will be able to finalize our decisions either today (Dec. 15) or next Monday (Dec. 19) at the latest,” Mitsotakis said as he arrived at the meeting, said Reuters.
“We are close to being able to impose a ceiling on the price of natural gas … I believe that, one way or another, we will find the necessary majorities in order to move in this direction,” he also said.
Mitsotakis added it was “absolutely necessary” that Europe “sends clear signal to the markets that it is not going to allow the instrumentalization of natural gas by Russia,” which supplies the bloc up to 40 percent of its needs.
He had been been pushing the EU to do something but there has been hemming and hawing for months about what to do even as worries grew that Russia – whose energy supplies were exempted from sanctions – would turn off the flow in winter.
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.
CALIFORNIA - The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide Thursday as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread.
NEW YORK — The third day of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial concluded Thursday after Trump's lawyers got their first chance to question a witness on the stand.
ATLANTA — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud.
ATHENS - Voters should see the whole picture when they go to cast their ballot in the European Parliament elections on June 9, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview on Thursday.