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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.
A resident of the mixed Cypriot village of Pyla was shot dead by a sniper on Tuesday night outside his residence. The victim was identified as Georgios Georgiou, aka Chicito.
Police were quick to point to a “contract killing” involving underworld crime, as Georgiou was identified as the owner of a local gambling den.
Georgiou, 40, was reportedly shot at night-time by a marksman as far as 130 meters away, a detail that Cypriot authorities said points to a skilled marksman. He was shot in the chest and shoulder while in the presence of his father and a friend. The other two were reportedly not targeted.
Police said the victim had previously been a subject in various criminal investigations. Up to 10 casinos are found in the area. .
Pyla, which is located in a UN buffer zone and is adjacent to a British sovereign base on Cyprus, still retains its original Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot residents, roughly 800 and 400, respectively.
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 (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.