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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.
LIMASSOL – Cypriot police in Limassol arrested three people in a car that was found to be carrying 190 stolen pigeons – no reason why they did it given – and that 51 of the birds were dead.
Authorities said it happened after officers pulled over for a check a vehicle in the Yermasoyia area. The men were said to be young, the driver an asylum seeker, and the other two facing charges of not having identification on them.
The pigeons were said to have a value of 1,500 euros ($1,583) and the men reportedly admitted taking them from a home in Pissouri and took police to the site of the theft to show it. The suspects were ordered remanded in custody for three days by a court. It wasn’t said if there was a stool pigeon.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
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.