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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 – Nine defendants on Cyprus charged with improperly arranging for an Iranian on Interpol’s Most Wanted List to get a residency permit and European Union passport in a now discredited scheme were cleared of the charges.
They were not named – the government has tried to keep secret the identities of wealthy foreigners who bought residency through investments – but In Cyprus and media sites said four were legal entities.
They were said to include a well-known Larnaca lawyer and his business associates who stood trial in the city’s criminal court after being accused of aiding the Iranian who wasn’t named either, said SchengenVisaInfo.com.
Residency permits were also said given to his parents after they reportedly gave fake documents to authorities although the scheme was found to have not properly vetted more than half the applicants before ended.
They faced 36 charges while the criminal court published a unanimous decision of a total of 252 pages.
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.