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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.
As it prepares for talks with Greek officials in Ankara over plans to drill for energy near Greek islands, Turkey withdrew a drill ship in Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) with the prospect of facing more European Union sanctions otherwise.
The Turkish drill ship Yavuz was operating southwest of Cyprus and reached the Turkish coast, Refinitiv Eikon shipping data showed, reported the news agency Reuters, a move seen as defusing tensions in the East Mediterranean for now.
Turkey doesn't recognize Cyprus, a member of the EU that Turkey has been trying to join since 2005, bars its ships and planes and claims part of waters around the island where the northern third has been occupied since a 1974 invasion.
The Yavuz vessel first began operations east of Cyprus in July 2019 and its latest operations were going to be extended to Oct. 12 even though Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades withdrew his veto over sanctions on Belarus unless Turkey was also penalized.
Turkish seismic research vessel Barbaros Hayrettin Pasa remains off southeastern Cyprus and its operations there have been extended to Oct. 18 with the EU so far imposing only soft sanctions exempting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.