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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.
Turkish-Cypriot police were reportedly questioning a suspect alleged to have gotten narcotics from a drone sent over a military zone from the Cypriot side of the divided island.
There is a buffer between the two sides patrolled by a United Nations peacekeeping force an Turkey keeps a standing 30,000-strong force on the side it has unlawfully occupied since a 1974 invasion, in an area said to be one of the most heavily guarded in Europe.
Smugglers are trying to use drones fly illegal drugs over the frontier separating the sides, Police there said the drone is believed to have taken off from the Cypriot side of the divided Capital of Nicosia, according to the Turkish-Cypriot Kibris newspaper and Turkey’s private DHA agency.
The reports did not disclose the type of drug that was seized. Turkish-Cypriot police were not available for comment and Greek Cypriot police said they had no information about the incident, as did the United Nations force which monitors the frontier, the news agency Reuters said.
The heavily militarized 180-kilometer (116 mile) frontier splitting Cyprus east to west runs straight through the center of Nicosia.
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.